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DAHRĪ
Mansour Shaki, Daniel Gimaret
(< Ar.-Pers. dahr “time, eternity”), a theological term referring either to an atheist or to an adherent of the doctrine that the universe had no beginning in time.
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DAHYU
Gherardo Gnoli
country (often with reference to the people inhabiting it).
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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.
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DĀʿĪ
Tahsin Yazici
the pen name of Aḥmad b. Ebrāhīm b. Moḥammad, Turkish scholar and poet who wrote in both Persian and Turkish.
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DĀʿĪ BOḴĀRĪ
Cathérine Poujol
(d. 1885), poet from Bukhara, probably born during the reign of Amir Naṣr-Allāh (1827-60).
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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.
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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.
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DĀʿĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ
Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
(1407-65), poet, preacher, and leader of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Fārs.
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DĀʿĪ-AL-ESLĀM, SAYYED MOḤAMMAD ʿALĪ
M. Saleem Akhtar
Persian scholar, preacher, and lexicographer, born 1295/1878 at Lārījān.
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DĀʿĪ-E KABĪR
Cross-Reference
See ḤASAN b. ZAYD.