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• DORR

  Cross-Reference

  See PEARL i. Pre-Islamic Period and PEARL ii. Islamic Period.

• DORRĀNĪ

  Daniel Balland

  probably the most numerous Pashtun tribal confederation, from which all Afghan dynasties since 1747 have come. The Dorrānī confederation is a political grouping of ten Pashtun tribes of various sizes, which are further organized in two leagues of five tribes each.

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• DORRĀNĪ DYNASTY

  Cross-Reference

  See AFGHANISTAN x.

• DORRĀNĪ, AḤMAD SHAH

  Cross-Reference

  See AFGHANISTAN x.

• ḎORRAT

  Hūšang Aʿlam

  maize or (Indian) corn, Zea mays L. (fam. Gramineae), with many varieties and hybrids.

• DORRAT AL-NAJAF

  Nassereddin Parvin

  lit. "Pearl of Najaf"; monthly religious journal published in Persian at Najaf in southern Iraq at the end of the first decade of the 20th century.

• DORRAT-AL-MAʿĀLĪ

  Afsaneh Najmabadi

  (b. Tehran, 1873, d. Tehran, Šahrīvar 1924), pioneer in female education in Persia.

• DORRI EFENDI

  Cross-Reference

  See DÜRRI EFENDI.

• DORŪD

  ʿALĪ ĀL-E DĀWŪD

  a town in Lorestān province, situated at the foot of Oštorānkūh, at an altitude of 1,460 m on the route from Tehran to Ḵorramābād at the confluence of the rivers Tīra and Mārbara.

• DŌŠĪ

  Daniel Balland

  small town and district on the northern slope of the central Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.