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  • DABĪRESTĀN

    Cross-Reference

    secondary school. See EDUCA­TION x. MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

  • DABĪRESTĀN-E NEẒĀM

    Cross-Reference

    military secondary school. See pending entry MILITARY.

  • DĀBŪYA DYNASTY

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀL-E DĀBŪYA.

  • DABUYIDS

    Wilfred Madelung

    the dynasty of espahbads ruling Ṭabarestān until its conquest by the Muslims in 144/761.

  • DĀD (1)

    Mansour Shaki

    (Av. dāta- “law, right, rule, regulation, statute, command, institution, decision”), in the Zoroastrian tradition the most general term for law.

  • DĀD (2)

    Jean During

    a vocal and instrumental gūša (motif), in reality more of a melodic type than a modal structure.  

  • DĀD (3)

    Nassereddin Parvin

    (lit., “justice”), a Tehran afternoon newspaper, 1942-61.

  • DĀD NASK

    Mansour Shaki

    (law book), one of the three divisions of the Avesta, comprising seven nasks, subdi­vided into the five strictly legal (dādīg) nasks (Nikātum, Duzd-sar-nizad, Huspāram, Sakātum, and Vidēvdād) and the two disparate nasks, Čihrdād and Bagān Yašt.

  • DADA ʿOMAR ROŠENĪ

    Cross-Reference

    cofounder of the Ḵalwatī Sufi order. See DEDE ÖMER RUŞENĪ

  • DADARSIS

    Muhammad A. Dandamayev

    Old Persian name derived from darš “to dare”; three men with this name are known.