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• DŪRNEMĀ-YE ĪRĀN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  weekly of politics and culture edited and published by the Persian writer, scholar, and filmmaker ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Sepantā in Bombay from 30 November 1928 to March 1929.

• DÜRRI EFENDI, AḤMAD

  Tahsin Yazici

  (or Dorrī Afandī; (b. Van, date unknown, d. Istanbul, 1722), Ottoman poet, civil servant, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Tehran and wrote Sefārat-nāma, the first Turkish account of Safavid Persia.

• DUSHANBE

  Muriel Atkin

  capital and most populous city of Tajikistan.

• DŪST MOḤAMMAD KHAN BĀRAKZĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See DŌST MOḤAMMAD KHAN.

• DŪST-ʿALĪ MOʿAYYER

  Cross-Reference

  See MOʿAYYER-AL-MAMĀLEK.

• DŪST-MOḤAMMAD HERAVĪ

  Chahryar Adle

  (d. probably Qazvīn, shortly after 1564), master calligrapher, the only artist whom Shah Ṭahmāsb I kept with him after having gradually dismissed all the others from his direct service.

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• DŪST-MOḤAMMAD MOṢAWWER

  Chahryar Adle

  (d. ca. 1560), master painter, known in the Indo-Persian world and even among the Ottomans as a painter (moṣawwer), paper cutter (qāṭeʿ), calligraphic tracer/outliner (moḥarrer), and perhaps binder (saḥḥāf) and gilder (moḏahheb).

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• DUTCH-PERSIAN RELATIONS

  Willem Floor

  , from the 16th century to the present. Until the 16th century the Dutch knew little of Persia and nothing of its language. Franciscus Raphelengius (1539-97), a professor at Leiden University, drew up a short list of Persian words based on the first Persian text ever printed, the translation of the Pentateuch published in Hebrew characters in Istanbul in 1546.

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• DŪZAḴ

  Mansour Shaki

  hell.

• DUŽYĀIRYA

  Antonio Panaino

  bad year or bad harvest.