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DĀʿĪ-E ṢAḠĪR
Cross-Reference
See ḤASAN b. QĀSEM ʿALAWĪ.
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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.
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DAIUKKU
Cross-Reference
See DEIOCES.
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DAIVA
Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean Kelllens
Old Iranian noun (Av. daēuua-, OPers. daiva-) corresponding to the title devá- of the Indian gods and thus reflecting the Indo-European heritage (*deiu̯ó-).
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DAIVADANA
Gherardo Gnoli
lit., "temple of the daivas," Old Persian term that appears in the “daiva inscription” of Xerxes at Persepolis.
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DAJJĀL
Hamid Algar
lit. "the great deceiver"; in Islamic tradition the maleficent figure gifted with supernatural powers whose advent and brief, though quasi-universal, rule will be among the signs heralding the approach of the resurrection.
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ḎAKAʾ-AL-MOLK
Cross-Reference
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DAKANĪ, REŻĀ ʿALĪŠĀH
Javad Nurbakhsh
also known as Shah ʿAlī-Reżā (1683-1799), leader (qoṭb, lit., “pole”) in the years 1741-99 of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Hyderabad (Deccan), India.
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DAKANĪ, SAYYED MĪR ʿABD AL ḤAMĪD MAʿṢŪM ʿALISĀH
Hamid Algar
(ca. 1738-97), the “renewer” (mojadded) of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Persia and thus the initiatory ancestor of all present-day Neʿmat-Allāhīs.
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DAḴĪL
Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Beyhaqī
lit. “interceder”; a piece of rag or cord or a lock fastened (daḵīl bastan) on a sacred place or object, for example, the railing around a saint’s tomb or grave or a public fountain (saqqā-ḵāna), the branch of a tree considered sacred, or another plant, in order to obtain a desired benefit.
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ḎAḴĪRA-YE ḴᵛĀRAZMŠĀHĪ
ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
early 13th-century Persian encyclopedia of medical knowledge compiled by Sayyed Esmāʿīl b. Ḥosayn Jorjānī.
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DAḴMA
Cross-Reference
in Zoroastrian practice, enclosure or structure for the exposure of the dead. See CORPSE.
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DALMĀ TEPE
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
The excavations revealed a mass of handmade, chaff-tempered pottery with fine grit inclusions, fired to orange or pink, frequently with a gray core. A few sherds have smoothed, undecorated surfaces and have been labeled “Dalma plain ware.”
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DALQAK
Farrokh Gaffary
buffoon, court jester, also sometimes known as masḵara.
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DAL’VERZIN TEPE
G. A. Pugachenkova
a large site in southern Uzbekistan located not far from the bank of the Surkhandarya river near Denau, a small city approximately 60 km northeast of Termez; it has yielded valuable data on the civilization and arts of northern Bactria and Tokharistan.
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DAM (1)
Cross-Reference
See BAND.
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DAM (2)
Klaus Fischer
archeological site in Afghanistan, 30°55’ N, 62°01’ E, located approximately 20 km east of the Helmand delta.
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DĀM PEZEŠKĪ
Mansour Shaki, Ḥasan Tājbaḵš, and Ṣādeq Sajjādī
veterinary medicine.
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DĀM-DĀRĪ
Jean-Pierre Digard
animal husbandry. In general, livestock raising in the Persian-speaking world is dominated by small animals, with a large proportion of goats, which in certain provinces of Persia itself are even more numerous than sheep. Cattle and equines, especially donkeys, are far less important.
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DĀMĀD, MĪR(-E), SAYYED MOḤAMMAD BĀQER
Andrew J. Newman
b. Mīr Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥosaynī Astarābādī (d. 1041/1631), leading Twelver Shiʿite theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet of 17th-century Persia.