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DĀNEŠ-NĀMA YE ʿALĀʾĪ
Hamid Dabashi
Persian philosophical treatise written by Avicenna (980-1037).
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DĀNEŠ-NĀMA-YE ĪRĀN WA ESLĀM
Ehsan Yarshater
Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam.
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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.
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DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLĪ
Cross-Reference
See EDUCATION; TEACHERS' TRAINING. See also JĀMEʿA-YE LISĀNSIAHĀ-YE DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLI.
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DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE MOQADDAMĀTĪ
Cross-Reference
See EDUCATION.
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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.
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DĀNEŠGĀH
Cross-Reference
See EDUCATION; entries on individual universities.
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DĀNEŠGĀH-E JANG
Cross-Reference
See MILITARY.
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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.
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DĀNEŠKĀDA
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DĀNEŠKĀDA-YE AFSARĪ
Cross-reference
See MILITARY.
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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).
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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.
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DĀNEŠMAND BAHĀDOR
Peter Jackson
Mongol commander (d. 1306).
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DĀNEŠMAND-E ḤĀJEB
Peter Jackson
Muslim officer in Mongol service in the first half of the 13th century.
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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.
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DĀNG
Cross-Reference
See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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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.
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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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DANISH-IRANIAN RELATIONS
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See DENMARK.
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DAQĀYEQĪ MARVAZĪ, ŠAMS-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
J. T. P. de Bruijn
b. ʿAlī, the supposed author of a version of the Baḵtīārnāma, who lived from the late 12th to the 13th century.
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DAQĪQĪ, ABŪ MANṢŪR AḤMAD
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
b. Aḥmad, one of the famous poets of the last years of the Samanid (819-1005) dynasty.
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DAQQĀQ, ABŪ ʿALĪ
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ʿALĪ DAQQĀQ.
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ḎARʿ
cross-reference
See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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DĀR AL- ḤARB
Hamid Algar
“the realm of war”; lands not under Islamic rule, a juridical term for certain non-Muslim territory, though often construed, especially by Western writers, as a geopolitical concept implying the necessity for perpetual, even if generally latent, warfare between the Muslim state and its non-Muslim neighbors.
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DĀR AL-FONŪN
John Gurney and Negin Nabavi
lit., “polytechnic college”; a college founded in Tehran in 1268/1851 by Mīrzā Ṭāqī Khan Amīr-e Kabīr, which marked the beginning of modern education in Persia.
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DĀR AL-ŠŪRĀ-YE KOBRĀ
Cross-Reference
See WEZĀRAT.
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DĀR AL-ŻARB
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See ŻARRĀB-ḴĀNA.
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DĀR(- E) TANHĀ
Ernie Haerinck
lit., “the lonely tree”; an archeological site in the district of Badr, near the village of Jabar, ca. 70 km east-southeast of Īlām, in the province of Pošt-e Kūh.
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DAR-E MEHR
Mary Boyce
a Zoroastrian term first recorded in the Persian Rivāyats and Parsi Gujarati writings.
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DĀRĀ
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E BĀVAND.
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DĀRA, MIRZĀ
Cross-Reference
See ʿABDALLĀH MĪRZĀ DĀRĀ.
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DĀRĀ (City)
Michael Weiskopf
the name of a Parthian city and of a Byzantine garrison town of the Sasanian period.
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DĀRĀ ŠOKŌH
Annemarie Schimmel
(b. near Ajmer, 20 March 1615, d. Delhi, 12 August 1659), first son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān and his wife Momtāz Maḥall, religious thinker, mystic, poet, and author of a number of works in Persian.
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DĀRĀ(B) (1)
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
or DĀRĀB, the name of two kings of the legendary Kayanid dynasty.
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DĀRĀB (2)
Massoud Kheirabadi, Dietrich Huff, Georgina Herrmann
the name Dārāb refers both to a šahrestān (subprovince) of Fārs province and to its chief city.
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DĀRĀB-NĀMA
William L. Hanaway
prose romance of the 12th century, by Abū Ṭāher Moḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ṭārsūsī (or Ṭarṭūsī), in which the adventures of the legendary Kayanid king Dārāb, son of Bahman (also called Ardašīr) and Homāy, variously identified as the daughter of king Sām Čāraš of Egypt or of Ardašīr (=Bahman), are recounted.
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DĀRĀBGERD
Cross-Reference
See Dārā(b) II.
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DĀRĀBĪ
Cross-Reference
See CITRUS FRUITS.
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DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED JAʿFAR
Andrew J. Newman
b. Abī Esḥāq Mūsawī Borūjerdī Kašfī (b. Eṣṭahbānāt in Fārs, 1775, d. Borūjerd 1851), religious scholar, nephew of the Aḵbārī Yūsuf b. Aḥmad Baḥrānī and father of Sayyed Yaḥyā Waḥīd Dārābī.
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DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED YAḤYĀ
Moojan Momen
(b. Yazd, ca. 1811, d. Neyrīz, 1850), Babi leader usually known as Waḥīd (unique), a title given him by the Bāb; the eldest son of Sayyed Jaʿfar Kašfī Eṣṭah-bānātī, he received a Muslim religious education and, like his father, was associated with the Qajar court.
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DARABPAHLAN, DASTUR
Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa
Zoroastrian priest and author (b. Navsari, Gujarat, 1668, d. Navsari, 1 September 1734), eldest son of Pahlan Fredoon, who was accorded the title “dastur” (high priest) and the privilege of occupying the second chair in the Zoroastrian assembly of the small port of Navsari in 1670 or perhaps earlier.
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DARAFŠ -E KĀVĪĀN
Cross-Reference
See DERĀFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN.
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DĀRĀʾĪ, WEZĀRAT
Cross-Reference
See FINANCE MINISTRY.
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DARĀMAD
Jean During
lit., “introduction”; an episode in the course of a musical performance, the nature and length of which vary with the material introduced.
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DARARIĀN, Vigen
Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi
(1929-2003) renowned pop singer and performer on the guitar.
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DARĀZ-DAST
Cross-Reference
See DERĀZ-DAST; ARDAŠĪR; BAHMAN (2).
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DARB -E EMĀM
Parvīz Varjāvand
large shrine complex in the old Sonbolestān quarter of Isfahan. The main structure, consisting of entrance portal (sar-dar), vestibule, and tomb, was built in 1453 and expanded and modified several times during the Safavid period.
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DARBĀ
Cross-Reference
See BĀR; COURTS AND COURTIERS.