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DĀḠ
Ṣādeq Sajjādī
“brand.” According to Rašīd-al-Dīn Fażl-Allāh, “The tamḡā was a special emblem or mark that the Turkish and Mongol peoples stamped on decrees and also branded on their flocks.” Each of the twenty-four tribes of the Oḡuz Turkmen had its own tamḡā, with which it branded its flocks.
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DĀḠESTĀN
Gadzhi Gamzatovich Gamzatov, Fridrik Thordarson
(Daghestan). The many-faceted relationship between Dāḡestān (ancient Albania), a region in the eastern Caucasus, and Persia since antiquity has yet to be studied as a whole, though there is considerable historical, linguistic, folkloric, literary, and art-historical evidence bearing on it.
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DĀḠESTĀNĪ, FATḤ ʿALĪ KHAN
Roger M. Savory
b. Alqāṣ Mīrzā b. Ildirim Khan Šamḵāl, grand vizier (wazīr-e aʿẓam, eʿtemād-al-dawla) under Shah Solṭān-Ḥosayn I Ṣafawī (1105-35/1694-1722).
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DAGH BARY
Murtazali Gadjiev
part of the defensive system in the eastern Caucasus constructed during the reign of Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79).
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DAGUERREOTYPE
Chahryar Adle
the first practical photographic process, introduced into Persia in the early 1840s, shortly after its official presentation to the French Académie de Science in Paris in 1839. Acceptance of the medium of photography in Persia reflected the cultural value attached to painting in general and portraiture in particular.
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ḎAHABĪYA
Hamid Algar
a Sufi order of Shiʿite allegiance, ultimately derived from the Kobrawīya order.
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DAHAE
François de Blois, Willem Vogelsang
i. The name. ii. The people.
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DAHAN-E ḠOLĀMĀN
Gherardo Gnoli
“Gateway of the slaves,” site ca. 30 km southeast of Zābol in Sīstān. It is the sole large provincial capital surviving from the Achaemenid empire; excavations there have brought to light a combination of “imperial” elements, identified in the public buildings, and local elements.
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DAHBĪDĪYA
Hamid Algar
a hereditary line of Naqšbandī Sufis centered on the shrine at Dahbīd, a village about 11 km. from Samarqand.
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DAHM YAZAD
Mary Boyce
the Middle Persian name of the Zoroastrian divinity (also known as Dahmān Āfrīn and Dahmān) who is the spirit or force inherent in the Avestan benediction called Dahma Vaŋuhi Āfriti, or Dahma Āfriti.
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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.