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• DEIPNOSOPHISTAÍ

  Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin

  lit. "Banquet of the Sophists"; a miscellany in the form of dialogues ostensibly conducted at table, including approximately one hundred passages pertaining to Persia.

• DEITY

  Cross-Reference

  See under ACHAEMENID RELIGION; AHRIMAN; AHURA MAZDĀ; MANICHEISM ii. The Manichean Pantheon; ZOROASTRIANISM; SHIʿITE DOCTRINE.

• DEJLA

  Cross-Reference

  See ARVAND-RŪD; TIGRIS.

• ḎEKR

  Gerhard Böwering, Moojan Momen

  lit., “remembrance”; the act of reminding oneself of God.

• ḎEKRĪS

  Cross-Reference

  See BALUCHISTAN i.

• DELĀRESTĀQ

  Bernard Hourcade

  also Delārostāq, Dīlārostāq; dehestān (administrative district) in the šahrestān of Āmol (Lārījān baḵš), on the northeastern slope of Mount Damāvand in Māzandarān.

• DELBARJĪN

  Paul Bernard

  urban site 40 km northwest of Balḵ, on the northern limit of an oasis irrigated by the Balḵāb, near a defensive wall built during the Greek period (ca 329-130 BCE) to protect the oasis. The earliest stage of the citadel may date from the Achaemenid period.

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• DELDĀR,YŪNES MELA RAʾŪF

  Joyce Blau

  (b. in the sanjaq of Ḵoy in the Ottoman empire, 20 February 1918; d. Erbīl, Iraq, 12 October 1948), Kurdish poet and humanist.

• DELDĀR-ʿALĪ

  Juan R. I. Cole

  b. Moḥammad-Moʿīn NAṢĪRĀBĀDĪ, Sayyed Ḡofrān-maʾāb (b. Naṣīrābād near Lucknow, 1753, d. Lucknow ca. 1820), Shiʿite cleric of northern India who helped to establish the Shiʿite form of Friday prayers and propagated the rationalist Oṣūlī school of jurisprudence in the Avadh region.

• DÉLÉGATIONS ARCHÉOLOGIQUES FRANÇAISES

  Francine Tissot

  bodies established by the French government to conduct archeological investigations in Persia and Afghanistan respectively.