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DADESTAN
Mansour Shaki
(dād “law,” with the formative suffix -stān), a Middle Persian term used with denotations and connotations that vary with the legal, religious, philosophical, and social context.
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DĀDESTĀN Ī DĒNĪG
Mansour Shaki
(Religious judgements), Pahlavi work by Manūščihr, high priest of the Persian Zoroastrian community in the 9th century.
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DADESTAN Ī MENOG Ī XRAD
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
(Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom), a Zoroastrian Pahlavi book in sixty-three chapters (a preamble and sixty-two questions and answers).
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DĀDGĀH "COURT"
Cross-Reference
court of law. See JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS v. JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
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DĀDGĀH "TEMPLE FIRE"
Cross-Reference
See ĀTAŠ.
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DĀDGAR, ḤOSAYN
Bāqer ʿĀqelī
ʿAdl-al-Molk (b. Tehran ca. 1299/1881, d. 1349 Š./1970), at various times president of the Persian Majles, cabinet minister, and senator under the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties.
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DĀDGOSTARĪ, WEZĀRAT-E
Cross-Reference
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DĀDĪŠOʿ
Erica C. D. Hunter
(Syr. “beloved of Jesus”; Payne Smith, col. 824, s.v.; Pers. “given by Jesus”), catholicus of the Sasanian “Nestorian” church in 420/21-455/56.
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DĀDIŠOʿ
Florence Jullien
(d. ca. 604), head of the Great monastery on Mount Izla in Ṭur ʿAbdin, north of Nisibis. He completed the monastic reform (6th-7th century) with his own rules, reinforcing the cenobitic way of life.
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DADISOʿ QATRAYA
Nicholas Sims-Williams
(late 7th century), Nestorian author of ascetic literature in Syriac. Presumably a native of Qaṭar, as his surname suggests, he lived for a time at the monastery of Rabban Šābūr, near Šostar in Ḵūzestān. His writings included commentaries on the Paradise of the Fathers and on the 26 “discourses” of Abbā Isaiah; fragments of the latter are found in Sogdian translation.
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DĀḎMEHR b. FARROḴĀN
Cross-Reference
espahbad of Ṭabarestān. See Dabuyids.
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DADWAR, DADWARIH
Mansour Shaki
respectively judge, administrator of justice, lawgiver, lit., “bearer of law.”
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DADYSETH AGIARY
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
in 1771 C.E. Dadibhai Noshirwanji Dadyseth established an agiary with an Ādarān fire for the sake of the soul of his first wife, Kunverbai, in the Fort district of Bombay.
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DADYSETH ATAS BAHRAM
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
the oldest Ātaš Bahrām of Bombay, consecrated and installed according to Kadmi rites in the district of Fanaswadi on the day of Sarōš, month of Farvardīn 1153 A.Y./29 September 1783.
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DADYSETH, Dadibhai Noshirwanji
Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal
(1734-99), a distinguished Parsi philanthropist.
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DAĒNA
Cross-Reference
See DĒN.
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DAF(F) AND DAYERA
Jean During, Veronica Doubleday
terms applied to types of frame drum common in both the art music and popular traditions of Persia. Such drums have long been known throughout Asia in various forms and under different names. The term dāyera originally referred to the flat, circular drums of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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DAFTAR
Hashem Rajabzadeh
an administrative office, as well as a notebook or booklet, more especially an account book or correspondence register, used in such an office.
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DAFTAR-E ASNĀD-E RASMĪ
Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī
(Registry of official documents), a government department where documents and records of transactions, contracts, marriages, divorces, and the like are kept and signatures verified.
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DAFTAR-ḴĀNA-YE HOMĀYŪN
Hashem Rajabzadeh
royal secretariat; a Safavid administrative unit headed by the daftardār, or chief secretary.