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• DĒN-DIBĪRĪH

  Cross-Reference

  See DABĪRE, DABĪRĪ.

• DĒNAG

  Philippe Gignoux

  name of several Sasanian queens; it was not feminine by derivation but was clearly reserved for feminine prosopography.

• DENIKE

  Anatol Ivanov

  (b. Kazan, 15 January 1885, d. Moscow, 13 October 1941), the first Russian historian of the medieval art of the Near and Far East.

• DENḴA TEPE

  Oscar White Muscarella

  a Bronze and Iron Age site situated in the Ošnū valley of Azerbaijan, southwest of Lake Urmia, and 15 miles west of the major Iron Age site of Hasanlu (Ḥasanlū) in the Soldūz valley.

• DĒNKARD

  Philippe Gignoux

  lit., “Acts of the religion”; written in Pahlavi, a summary of 10th-century knowledge of the Mazdean religion; the editor, Ādurbād Ēmēdān, entitled the final version “The Dēnkard of one thousand chapters.”

• DENMARK

  Fereydun Vahman, Jes P. Asmussen

  : relations with Persia. Danish-Persian relations have been concentrated in three main areas: politics and diplomacy; trade and other economic relations; and Iranian studies in Denmark, including collections of Persian art in Danish museums.

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• DENŠAPUH

  James Russell

  short form of Vehdenšapuh; Sasanian hambārakapet (quartermaster) involved in the campaign of Yazdagerd II (438-57) to force Christian Armenians to abjure their faith and return to Zoroastrianism; a gem bearing his name is preserved in the British Museum in London.

• DENTISTRY

  Ṣādeq Sajjādī

  (dandān-pezeškī) in Persia.

• DEOBAND

  Barbara Daly Metcalf

  country town northeast of Delhi in what is now the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India, where an influential Dār al-ʿolūm was founded by a group of religious scholars in 1867 as an expression of a major religious reform movement partly inspired by British educational models.

• DEPORTATIONS

  A. Shapur Shahbazi, Erich Kettenhofen, John R. Perry

  forced transfers of population from one region to another.