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• DAʿĪ

  Farhad Daftary

  he who summons; a term used by several Muslim groups, especially the Ismaʿilis, to designate their propagandists or missionaries.

• DĀʿĪ

  Tahsin Yazici

  the pen name of Aḥmad b. Ebrāhīm b. Moḥammad, Turkish scholar and poet who wrote in both Persian and Turkish.

• DĀʿĪ BOḴĀRĪ

  Cathérine Poujol

  (d. 1885), poet from Bukhara, probably born during the reign of Amir Naṣr-Allāh (1827-60).

• DĀʿĪ ELAʾL-ḤAQQ, ABŪ ʿABD ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD

  Wilfred Madelung

  b. Zayd b. Moḥammad b. Esmāʿīl b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb (d. 287/900), brother and successor of Ḥasan b. Zayd, founder of Zaydī rule in Rūyān and Ṭabarestān.

• DĀʿĪ JĀN NĀPELʾON

  Nasrin Rahimiyeh

  lit., “Uncle Napoleon”, a satirical novel written in 1348-49 Š./1969-70 by Īraj Pezeškzād, who was already known in Persia for writing such satirical novels.

• DĀʿĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ

  Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

  AL-DĀʿĪ ELAʾLLĀH SAYYED NEẒĀM AL DĪN MAḤMŪD(1407-65), poet, preacher, and leader of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Fārs.

• DĀʿĪ-AL-ESLĀM, SAYYED MOḤAMMAD ʿALĪ

  M. Saleem Akhtar

  Per­sian scholar, preacher, and lexicographer, born 1295/1878 at Lārījān.

• DĀʿĪ-E KABĪR

  Cross-Reference

  See ḤASAN b. ZAYD.

• DĀʿĪ-E ṢAḠĪR

  Cross-Reference

  See ḤASAN b. QĀSEM ʿALAWĪ.

• DĀITYĀ, VAŊHVĪ

  Gherardo Gnoli

  the name of a river connected with the religious law, frequently identified in scholarly literature with the Oxus or with rivers of the northeastern region.