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Among all the rock-cut tombs of the former territory of Media and of Fārs, it most closely resembles the royal Achaemenid tombs.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabbagi">DABBĀḠĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī</h3> <p><p>tanning, the process by which animal skins are made into leather.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabestan-elementary-school">DABESTĀN</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>(elementary school). See <a href="/articles/education-index">EDUCATION</a>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabestan-lit">DABESTĀN JOURNAL</span></a></h2> <h3>Nassereddin Parvin</h3> <p><p>(“school”), Persian monthly cultural journal published in Mašhad, 1922-27. </p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabestan-e-madaheb">DABESTĀN-E MAḎĀHEB</span></a></h2> <h3>Fatḥ-Allāh Mojtabāʾī</h3> <p><p>(school of religious doctrines), an important text of the Āḏar Kayvānī pseudo-Zoroastrian sect, written between 1645 and 1658.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabir-secretary-scribe">DABĪR</span></a></h2> <h3>Aḥmad Tafażżolī, Hashem Rajabzadeh</h3> <p><p>"secretary, scribe." i. In the pre-Islamic period. ii. In the Islamic period.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabir-al-molk-farahani-mirza-mohammad-hosayn">DABĪR-AL-MOLK FARĀHĀNĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Guity Nashat</h3> <p><p>or Mīrzā Moḥammad-Ḥosayn (1810-80), director of the private royal secretariat under Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabir-e-azam">DABĪR-E AʿẒAM</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/bahrami-faraj-allah-dabir-azam-1878-79">BAHRAMĪ, FARAJ-ALLĀH.</a></p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabire-dabiri-mid">DABĪRE, DABĪRĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Aḥmad Tafażżolī</h3> <p><p>a term designating the “seven scripts” supposedly used in the Sasanian period.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabirestan-secondary-school">DABĪRESTĀN </span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>secondary school. See <a href="/articles/education-x-middle-and-secondary-schools">EDUCA­TION x. MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabirestan-e-nezam-military-secondary-school">DABĪRESTĀN-E NEẒĀM </span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>military secondary school. See pending entry MILITARY.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dabuya-dynasty">DĀBŪYA DYNASTY</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/al-e-dabuya">ĀL-E DĀBŪYA</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dabuyids-the-dynasty-of-espahbads-ruling-tabarestan-until-its-conquest-by-the-muslims-in-144-761">DABUYIDS</span></a></h2> <h3>Wilfred Madelung</h3> <p><p>the dynasty of <em>espahbad</em>s ruling Ṭabarestān until its conquest by the Muslims in 144/761.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dad-1-law">DĀD (1)</span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki</h3> <p><p>(Av. dāta- “law, right, rule, regulation, statute, command, institution, decision”), in the Zoroastrian tradition the most general term for law.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dad-2-musical-gusa">DĀD (2)</span></a></h2> <h3>Jean During</h3> <p><p>a vocal and instrumental <em>gūša</em> (motif), in reality more of a melodic type than a modal structure. </p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dad-3-newspaper">DĀD (3)</span></a></h2> <h3>Nassereddin Parvin</h3> <p><p>(lit., “justice”), a Tehran afternoon newspaper, 1942-61.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dad-nask-law-book-one-of-the-three-divisions-of-the-avesta-q">DĀD NASK </span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki</h3> <p><p>(law book), one of the three divisions of the Avesta, comprising seven <em>nask</em>s, subdi­vided into the five strictly legal (<em>dādīg</em>) <em>nask</em>s (<em>Nikātum</em>, <em>Duzd-sar-nizad</em>, <em>Huspāram</em>, <em>Sakātum</em>, and <em>Vidēvdād</em>) and the two disparate <em>nask</em>s, <em>Čihrdād</em> and <em>Bagān Yašt</em>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dada-omar-roseni-cofounder-of-the-kalwati-sufi-order">DADA ʿOMAR ROŠENĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>cofounder of the Ḵalwatī Sufi order. See DEDE ÖMER RUŞENĪ</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadarsis-old-persian-name-derived-from-darsto-dare-kent-old-persian-p">DADARSIS</span></a></h2> <h3>Muhammad A. Dandamayev</h3> <p><p>Old Persian name derived from darš “to dare”; three men with this name are known.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadestan-dad-q">DADESTAN </span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki</h3> <p><p>(<em>dād</em> “law,” with the formative suffix -<em>stān</em>), a Middle Persian term used with denota­tions and connotations that vary with the legal, reli­gious, philosophical, and social context.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadestan-i-denig-religious">DĀDESTĀN Ī DĒNĪG </span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki</h3> <p><p>(Religious judgements), Pahlavi work by Manūščihr, high priest of the Persian Zoroastrian community in the 9th century.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadestan-i-menog">DADESTAN Ī MENOG Ī XRAD </span></a></h2> <h3>Aḥmad Tafażżolī</h3> <p><p>(Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom), a Zoroastrian Pahlavi book in sixty-three chapters (a preamble and sixty-two ques­tions and answers).</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadgah-court-of-law">DĀDGĀH "COURT"</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>court of law. See <a href="/articles/judicial-and-legal-systems-v-judicial-system-in-the-20th-century">JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS v. JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE 20TH CENTURY</a>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadgah-fire">DĀDGĀH "TEMPLE FIRE"</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/atas-fire">ĀTAŠ</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadgar-hosayn-b">DĀDGAR, ḤOSAYN </span></a></h2> <h3>Bāqer ʿĀqelī</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadgostari-wezarat-e">DĀDGOSTARĪ, WEZĀRAT-E</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <span><span class="main-entry"><a href="/articles/judicial-and-legal-systems-i-achaemenid-judicial-and-legal-systems">JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS</a></span></span><a href="/articles/judicial-and-legal-systems-i-achaemenid-judicial-and-legal-systems">.</a></p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadiso-syr">DĀDĪŠOʿ </span></a></h2> <h3>Erica C. D. Hunter</h3> <p><p>(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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadisho-monk-and-abbot">DĀDIŠOʿ</span></a></h2> <h3>Florence Jullien</h3> <p><p>(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.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadiso-qatraya-late-7th-century-c">DADISOʿ QATRAYA </span></a></h2> <h3>Nicholas Sims-Williams</h3> <p><p>(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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadmehr-b">DĀḎMEHR b. FARROḴĀN </span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>espahbad of Ṭabarestān. See <a href="/articles/dabuyids-the-dynasty-of-espahbads-ruling-tabarestan-until-its-conquest-by-the-muslims-in-144-761">Dabuyids</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadwar-dadwarih-respectively-judge-administrator-of-justice-lawgiver-lit">DADWAR, DADWARIH</span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki</h3> <p><p>respectively judge, administrator of justice, lawgiver, lit., “bearer of law.”</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadyseth-agiary">DADYSETH AGIARY</span></a></h2> <h3>Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dadyseth-atas-bahram-the-oldest-atas-bahiam-q">DADYSETH ATAS BAHRAM</span></a></h2> <h3>Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dadyseth-dadibhai-noshirwanji-1734-99-a-distinguished-parsi-philanthropist">DADYSETH, Dadibhai Noshirwanji </span></a></h2> <h3>Mary Boyce and Firoze M. Kotwal</h3> <p><p>(1734-99), a distinguished Parsi philanthropist.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/daena">DAĒNA</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/den">DĒN</a>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/daff-and-dayera-daf-ar">DAF(F) AND DAYERA </span></a></h2> <h3>Jean During, Veronica Doubleday</h3> <p><p>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 <em>dāyera </em>originally referred to the flat, circular drums of pre-­Islamic Arabia.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/daftar-mid">DAFTAR </span></a></h2> <h3>Hashem Rajabzadeh</h3> <p><p>an administrative office, as well as a notebook or booklet, more especially an account book or correspondence regis­ter, used in such an office.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/daftar-e-asnad-e-rasmi">DAFTAR-E ASNĀD-E RASMĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī</h3> <p><p>(Registry of official documents), a government department where documents and records of transactions, contracts, marriages, divorces, and the like are kept and signa­tures verified.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/daftar-kana-ye-homayun">DAFTAR-ḴĀNA-YE HOMĀYŪN</span></a></h2> <h3>Hashem Rajabzadeh</h3> <p><p>royal sec­retariat; a Safavid administrative unit headed by the <em>daftardār</em>, or chief secretary.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dag-av">DĀḠ </span></a></h2> <h3>Ṣādeq Sajjādī</h3> <p><p>“brand.” According to Rašīd-al-Dīn Fażl-Allāh, “The <em>tamḡā</em> 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 <em>tamḡā</em>, with which it branded its flocks.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dagestan">DĀḠESTĀN</span></a></h2> <h3>Gadzhi Gamzatovich Gamzatov, Fridrik Thordarson</h3> <p><p>(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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dagestani-fath-ali-khan-b">DĀḠESTĀNĪ, FATḤ ʿALĪ KHAN </span></a></h2> <h3>Roger M. Savory</h3> <p><p>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).</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dagh-bary">DAGH BARY</span></a></h2> <h3>Murtazali Gadjiev</h3> <p><p>part of the defensive system in the eastern Caucasus constructed during the reign of Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79).</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/daguerreotype">DAGUERREOTYPE</span></a></h2> <h3>Chahryar Adle</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dahabiya-sufi-order-of-shiite-allegiance">ḎAHABĪYA</span></a></h2> <h3>Hamid Algar</h3> <p><p>a Sufi order of Shiʿite allegiance, ultimately derived from the Kobrawīya order.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dahae">DAHAE</span></a></h2> <h3>François de Blois, Willem Vogelsang</h3> <p><p>i. The name. ii. The people.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dahan-e-golaman-or-according-to-walther-hinz-p">DAHAN-E ḠOLĀMĀN</span></a></h2> <h3>Gherardo Gnoli</h3> <p><p>“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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dahbidiya-a-hereditary-line-of-naqsbandi-sufis-centered-on-the-shrine-at-dahbid-a-village-about-11-km">DAHBĪDĪYA</span></a></h2> <h3>Hamid Algar</h3> <p><p>a hereditary line of Naqšbandī Sufis centered on the shrine at Dahbīd, a village about 11 km. from Samarqand.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dahm-yazad-the-middle-persian-name-of-the-zoroastrian-divinity-also-known-as-dahman-afrin-and-dahman-who-is-the-spirit">DAHM YAZAD</span></a></h2> <h3>Mary Boyce</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dahri-ar">DAHRĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki, Daniel Gimaret</h3> <p><p>(< 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.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dahyu-">DAHYU </span></a></h2> <h3>Gherardo Gnoli</h3> <p><p>country (often with reference to the people inhabiting it).</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dai-propagandists">DAʿĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Farhad Daftary</h3> <p><p>he who summons; a term used by several Muslim groups, especially the Ismaʿilis, to designate their propagandists or missionaries.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dai-ahmad">DĀʿĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Tahsin Yazici</h3> <p><p>the pen name of Aḥmad b. Ebrāhīm b. Moḥammad, Turkish scholar and poet who wrote in both Persian and Turkish.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dai-mirza-sams-al-din-bokari-d">DĀʿĪ BOḴĀRĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Cathérine Poujol</h3> <p><p>(d. 1885), poet from Bukhara, probably born during the reign of Amir Naṣr-Allāh (1827-60).</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dai-elal-haqq-abu-abd-allah-mohammad-b">DĀʿĪ ELAʾL-ḤAQQ, ABŪ ʿABD ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD </span></a></h2> <h3>Wilfred Madelung</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dai-jan-napelon-lit">DĀʿĪ JĀN NĀPELʾON </span></a></h2> <h3>Nasrin Rahimiyeh</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dai-sirazi-al-dai-elallah-sayyed-nezam-al-din-mahmud-810-70-1407-65-known-as-shah-dai-poet-preacher">DĀʿĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ </span></a></h2> <h3>Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā</h3> <p><p>(1407-65), poet, preacher, and leader of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Fārs.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dai-al-eslam-sayyed-mohammad-ali-persian-scholar-preacher-and-lexicographer-born-1295-1878-at-larijan">DĀʿĪ-AL-ESLĀM, SAYYED MOḤAMMAD ʿALĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>M. Saleem Akhtar</h3> <p><p>Per­sian scholar, preacher, and lexicographer, born 1295/1878 at Lārījān.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dai-e-kabir">DĀʿĪ-E KABĪR</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See ḤASAN b. ZAYD.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dai-e-sagir">DĀʿĪ-E ṢAḠĪR</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See ḤASAN b. QĀSEM ʿALAWĪ.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/daitya-vahvi">DĀITYĀ, VAŊHVĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Gherardo Gnoli</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/daiukku">DAIUKKU</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/deioces">DEIOCES</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/daiva-old-iranian-noun">DAIVA</span></a></h2> <h3>Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean Kelllens</h3> <p><p>Old Iranian noun (Av. <em>daēuua-</em>, OPers. <em>daiva-</em>) corresponding to the title <em>devá-</em> of the Indian gods and thus reflecting the Indo-European heritage (*<em>deiu̯ó-</em>).</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/daivadana-lit">DAIVADANA </span></a></h2> <h3>Gherardo Gnoli</h3> <p><p><strong> </strong>lit., "temple of the <em>daiva</em>s," Old Persian term that appears in the “<em>daiva </em> inscrip­tion” of Xerxes at Persepolis.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dajjal-the-great-deceiver-in-islamic-tradition-the-maleficent-figure-gifted-with-supernatural-powers-whose-advent-and-bri">DAJJĀL</span></a></h2> <h3>Hamid Algar</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/aka-al-molk">ḎAKAʾ-AL-MOLK</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/forugi-mohammad-ali">FORŪḠĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ʿALĪ</a>; <a href="/articles/forugi-mohammad-hosayn">FORŪḠĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dakani-reza-alisah-also-known-as-shah-ali-reza-1094-1204-1683-1799-leader-qotb-lit">DAKANĪ, REŻĀ ʿALĪŠĀH</span></a></h2> <h3>Javad Nurbakhsh</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dakani-sayyed-mir-abd-al-hamid-masum-alisah-ca">DAKANĪ, SAYYED MĪR ʿABD AL ḤAMĪD MAʿṢŪM ʿALISĀH </span></a></h2> <h3>Hamid Algar</h3> <p><p>(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.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dakil-interceder-a-piece-of-rag-or-cord-or-a-lock-fastened-dakil-bastan-on-a-sacred-place-or-object-for-example-the-">DAḴĪL </span></a></h2> <h3>Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Beyhaqī</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dakira-ye-kvarazmsahi-persian-encyclopedia-of-medical-knowledge">ḎAḴĪRA-YE ḴᵛĀRAZMŠĀHĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī</h3> <p><p>early 13th-century Persian ency­clopedia of medical knowledge compiled by Sayyed Esmāʿīl b. Ḥosayn Jorjānī.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dakma">DAḴMA</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>in Zoroastrian practice, enclosure or structure for the exposure of the dead. See <a href="/articles/corpse-disposal-of-in-zoroastrianism">CORPSE</a>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dalma-tepe-an-archeological-site-in-western-azerbaijan">DALMĀ TEPE</span></a></h2> <h3>Robert H. Dyson, Jr.</h3> <p><p>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.”</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dalqak-buffoon-court-jester-also-sometimes-known-as-maskara">DALQAK</span></a></h2> <h3>Farrokh Gaffary</h3> <p><p>buffoon, court jester, also sometimes known as masḵara.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dalverzin-tepe">DAL’VERZIN TEPE</span></a></h2> <h3>G. A. Pugachenkova</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dam">DAM (1)</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/band-dam">BAND</a>.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dam-archeological-site-in-afghanistan">DAM (2) </span></a></h2> <h3>Klaus Fischer</h3> <p><p>archeological site in Afghanistan, 30°55’ N, 62°01’ E, located approximately 20 km east of the Helmand delta.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dam-pezeski-veterinary-medicine">DĀM PEZEŠKĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Mansour Shaki, Ḥasan Tājbaḵš, and Ṣādeq Sajjādī</h3> <p><p>veterinary medicine.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dam-dari-animal-husbandry">DĀM-DĀRĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Jean-Pierre Digard</h3> <p><p>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.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/damad-mir-e-sayyed-mohammad-baqer-b">DĀMĀD, MĪR(-E), SAYYED MOḤAMMAD BĀQER </span></a></h2> <h3>Andrew J. Newman</h3> <p><p>b. Mīr Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥosaynī Astarābādī (d. 1041/1631), leading Twelver Shiʿite theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet of 17th-century Persia.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/damascus-zoroastrians-at">DAMASCUS, Zoroastrians at</span></a></h2> <h3>Mary Boyce</h3> <p><p>The earliest evi­dence for the presence of Zoroastrians at Damascus is provided by Berossus, who stated that this was one of the cities of the Achaemenid empire at which Artaxerxes II (404-358 b.c.e.) had a statue set up for “Anaitis”</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/damaspia-gk">DAMASPIA </span></a></h2> <h3>Rüdiger Schmitt</h3> <p><p>name of a Persian queen, wife of Artaxerxes I and mother of his legal heir, Xerxes II (424/3 B.C.E.).</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/damavand">DAMĀVAND</span></a></h2> <h3>Bernard Hourcade, Aḥmad Tafażżolī</h3> <p><p>mountain, town, and administrative district (šahrestān) in the central Alborz region.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/damdad-nask">DĀMDĀD NASK</span></a></h2> <h3>D. N. MacKenzie</h3> <p><p>the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) name of one of the lost nasks of the Avesta. </p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dameli">DAMELĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/dardestan-"> DARDESTĀN</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/damgan-persian-town">DĀMḠĀN</span></a></h2> <h3>Chahryar Adle</h3> <p><p>(Damghan) Persian town located on a plain south of the Alborz range, 342 km east of Tehran. Situated on the main highway from Tehran to Nīšāpūr, Mašhad, and Herat, it also dominates less important roads north to Sārī and Gorgān, as well as tracks leading south to Yazd and Isfahan via Jandaq.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/damgani-nesba-of-a-leading-family-of-jurists-of-persian-origin-descendants-of-abu-abd-allah-mohammad-kabir-b">DĀMḠĀNĪ (1)</span></a></h2> <h3>EIr</h3> <p><p>nesba of a leading family of jurists of Persian origin, descendants of Abū ʿAbd-Allāh Moḥammad Kabīr (b. Dāmḡān 1007, d. Baghdad 1085), a well-known exponent of Hanafite law, who served as the chief magistrate (<em>qāżī al-qożāt</em>) of Baghdad.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/damgani-nesba-of-a-father-and-two-sons-from-damgan-who-worked-as-engineers-builders-and-stucco-carvers-in-the-early">DĀMḠĀNĪ (2)</span></a></h2> <h3>Sheila S. Blair</h3> <p><p>nesba of a father and two sons from Dāmḡān who worked as engineers, builders, and stucco carvers in the early 14th century.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/damgani-abu-ali">DĀMḠĀNĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Cross-Reference</h3> <p><p>See <a href="/articles/abu-ali-mohammad-b-2">ABŪ ʿALĪ DĀMḠĀNĪ</a>.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dami-avestan-word-probably-the-noun-of-agency-connected-with-old-avestan-daman-stake-y">DĀMI </span></a></h2> <h3>Jean Kellens</h3> <p><p>Avestan word, probably the noun of agency connected with Old Avestan dāman- “stake," thus “the one who drives the stake.”</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/damiri">DAMIRI, MOḤAMMAD </span></a></h2> <h3>G. A. Russell</h3> <p><p>b. Musā b. ʿIsā Kamāl al-Din Ebn Elyās b. ʿAbd-Allāh al-Damiri (b. Cairo, A.H. 745/A.D. 1342, d. Cairo, A.H. 808/ A.D. 1405), a tailor turned Shāfiʿi theologian, is best known for his <em>Ḥayātal-ḥayawān</em> (Animal Life).</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dampoktak-dami-terms-referring-to-rice-cooked-in-a-single-pot-cf">DAMPOḴT(AK)</span></a></h2> <h3>Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar</h3> <p><p>or DAMĪ, terms referring to rice cooked in a single pot.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dance-raqs">DANCE </span></a></h2> <h3>A. Shapur Shahbazi, Robyn C. Friend</h3> <p><p>(<em>raqṣ</em>). Single dancers or groups of dancers represented on pottery from prehistoric Iranian sites (e.g., Tepe Siyalk, Tepe Mūsīān) attest the antiquity of this art in Iran. According to Duris of Samos (apud Athenaeus, <em>Deipnosophistae</em>), the Achaemenid Persians learned to dance, just as they learned to ride horseback.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/dandan-ilq-ivory-houses">DANDĀN ÖILÏQ (“ivory houses”)</span></a></h2> <h3>Gerd Gropp</h3> <p><p>lit. “ivory houses”; ruined city located about 50 km north of the Domoko oasis in the eastern portion of the oasis complex of Khotan, in Chinese Turkestan.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/dandanqan-a-small-town-of-medieval-khorasan-in-the-qara-qum-or-sandy-desert-between-marv-and-saraks-10-farsaks-from-">DANDĀNQĀN</span></a></h2> <h3>C. Edmund Bosworth</h3> <p><p>a small town of medieval Khorasan, in the Qara Qum, or sandy desert, between Marv and Saraḵs, 10 farsaḵs from the former, on which it was administratively dependent.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/danes-pen-name-of-moin-al-wezara-mirza-reza-khan-arfa-arfa-al-dawla-ca">DĀNEŠ (1)</span></a></h2> <h3>ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī</h3> <p><p>pen name of MOʿĪN-AL-WEZĀRA MĪRZĀ <strong>REŻĀ KHAN ARFAʿ </strong>(Arfaʿ-al-Dawla; ca. 1846-1937), also known as Prince Reżā Arfaʿ, diplomat and poet of the late Qajar period.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/danes-lit">DĀNEŠ (2)</span></a></h2> <h3>Nassereddin Parvin</h3> <p><p>lit., “knowledge”; title of seven newspa­pers and journals published in Persia and the Indian subcontinent, presented here in chronological order.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/danes-donis-ahmad-makdum-b">DĀNEŠ, AḤMAD MAḴDŪM </span></a></h2> <h3>Vincent Fourniau</h3> <p><p>b. Mīr b. Yūsof ḤANAFĪ ṢEDDĪQĪ BOḴĀRĪ (1242-1314/1827-97), known as Aḥmad Kallā and Mohandes (lit., “engineer”), a historian and progressive Tajik writer of Bukhara.</p></p> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/danes-hosayn-b">DĀNEŠ, ḤOSAYN </span></a></h2> <h3>Peter J. Chelkowski</h3> <p><p>(b. Istanbul 1870, d. Ankara 1943), a leading Turco-Persian poet, journalist, and scholar who wrote on literary, political, and social issues for many Persian newspapers.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/danes-taqi-b">DĀNEŠ, TAQĪ</span></a></h2> <h3>Īraj Afšār</h3> <p><p>(b. Tabrīz, 1861, d. 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