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• ḎU’L-JANĀḤ

  Jean Calmard

  Imam Ḥosayn’s winged horse, known from popular literature and rituals.

• ḎU’L-LESĀNAYN

  Hamid Algar

  lit. “possessor of two tongues”; epithet often bestowed upon bilingual poets.

• ḎU’L-NŪN MEṢRĪ, ABU’L-FAYŻ ṮAWBĀN

  Gerhard Böwering

  b. Ebrāhīm (b. Aḵmīm in Upper Egypt, ca. 791, d. Jīza [Giza], between 859 and 862), early Sufi master.

• ḎU’L-QADR

  Pierre Oberling

  (arabicized form of Turk. Dulgadır), a Ḡozz tribe that became established mainly in southeastern Anatolia under the Saljuqs.

• DU’L-QARNAYN

  Cross-Reference

  See ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

• ḎU’L-RĪĀSATAYN

  Cross-Reference

  See FAŻL B. SAHL.

• ḎU’L-RĪĀSATAYN

  Hamid Algar

  (b. Shiraz, 1873, d. Tehran, 15 June 1953), for thirty years qoṭb (leader) of a principal branch of the Neʿmatallāhī Sufi order. 

• DULAFIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See DOLAFIDS.

• DUMAQU

  Gerd Gropp

  or Domoko; administrative center of the eastern region of the Khotan oasis in Chinese Turkestan.

• DUMÉZIL, Georges

  Bruce Lincoln

   (1898-1986), French comparatist philologist and religious studies scholar. Among the most significant later modifications in Dumézil's views was his decision to abandon the claim that Indo-European society was originally divided into three functional groupings, whose defining characteristics were then inscribed in myth, ritual, and the structure of the pantheon. Rather, he came to regard the tripartite system as an “ideology,” a collective ideal.

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