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  • DĀNEŠ-NĀMA YE ʿALĀʾĪ

    Hamid Dabashi

    Persian philosophical treatise written by Avicenna (980-1037).

  • DĀNEŠ-NĀMA-YE ĪRĀN WA ESLĀM

    Ehsan Yarshater

    Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam.

  • DĀNEŠ-NĀMA-YE QADAR KHAN

    Solomon Bayevsky

    (Book of knowledge [dedicated to] Qadar Khan), a Persian dictionary compiled by Ašrāf b. Šaraf Moḏakker Fārūḡī primarily in Malwa, India, and completed in 1405.

  • DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See EDUCATION; TEACHERS' TRAINING. See also JĀMEʿA-YE LISĀNSIAHĀ-YE DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLI.

  • DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE MOQADDAMĀTĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See EDUCATION.

  • DĀNESF(AH)ĀN

    Ehsan Yarshater

    locally Donesbon, a village located at 49°45′ E, 35°47′ N in the southern part of the Rāmand district of Qazvīn province, 30 km west and slightly north of Būyīn; it has a population of a little over 3,000.

  • DĀNEŠGĀH

    Cross-Reference

    See EDUCATION; entries on indi­vidual universities.

  • DĀNEŠGĀH-E JANG

    Cross-Reference

    See MILITARY.

  • DANESHVAR, REZA

    Forogh Hashabeiky and Behrooz Sheyda

    (1948-2015),  fiction writer, and playwright, who received substantial recognition both in Iran and abroad.

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  • DĀNEŠKADA

    Nassereddin Parvin

    a monthly literary journal published from April 1918 to April 1919 in Tehran by the distinguished poet, literary critic, and scholar Moḥammad-Taqi Malek-al-Šoʿarāʾ Bahār, considered the leading Persian literary figure of his time.

  • DĀNEŠKĀDA

    Cross-Reference

    See EDUCATION; FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN.

  • DĀNEŠKĀDA-YE AFSARĪ

    Cross-reference

    See MILITARY.

  • DĀNEŠKADA-YE EṢFAHĀN

    N. Parvin

    a monthly literary journal and the organ of a society of the same name, published in two series in Isfahan by the poet and calligrapher Mirzā ʿAbbās Khan Dehkordi Šeydā (1882-1949).

  • DĀNEŠMAND

    Tahsin Yazici

    (d. 1104), Amir Ḡāzī Taylu Gümüš tigin Aḥmad (or Moḥammad), founder of a Turkman dynasty in northern Cappadocia toward the end of the 11th century.

  • DĀNEŠMAND BAHĀDOR

    Peter Jackson

    Mongol com­mander (d. 1306).

  • DĀNEŠMAND-E ḤĀJEB

    Peter Jackson

    Muslim officer in Mongol service in the first half of the 13th century.

  • DANESTAMA

    Klaus Fischer

    a mud-brick structure on diaper masonry foundations located on the left bank of the Sorḵāb river, 34 km north of Doāb-e Mīḵzarīn on the road to Došī.

  • DĀNG

    Cross-Reference

    See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

  • DĀNĪĀL B. MOŠEH QŪMESĪ

    Amnon Netzer

    Persian Jewish scholar and exegete of the Karaite sect, the members of which rejected rabbinical writings later than the Bible itself.

  • DĀNĪĀL-E NABĪ

    Amnon Netzer, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Parvīz Varjāvand, Amnon Netzer

    Dānīāl is not mentioned in the Koran but is venerated as a prophet in Muslim tradition. Eschatological statements and the prophecy recounted in Daniel 12:12 (supposedly concerning the year 1335) have been interpreted by Jews as referring to the coming of the Messiah.

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