FARYŪMAD (modern FARŪMAD), MONUMENTS of. No thorough archeological investigation has been conducted in the Faryūmad area. Erich F. Schmidt’s aerial…

DŪST-MOḤAMMAD b. Solaymān HERAVĪ (d. probably Qazvīn, shortly after 972/1564), master calligrapher, the only artist whom Shah Ṭahmāsb I (930-84/1524-76)…

DŪST-MOḤAMMAD MOṢAWWER (also Dūst-e Dīvāna “fool, eccentric,” Dūst-e Moṣawwer; d. India in 1560 or shortly afterward), master painter, not to…

DĀMḠĀN, Persian town located on a plain south of the Alborz range, 342 km east of Tehran (54° 20’, 36°…

DAGUERREOTYPE, the first practical photo­graphic process, introduced into Persia in the early 1840s, shortly after its official presentation to the…

BESṬĀM, or Basṭām (sometimes written Bustam or Bostam), a small town in the medieval Iranian province of Qūmes (also Kūmeš)…