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DORRI EFENDI
Cross-Reference
See DÜRRI EFENDI.
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DORŪD
ʿALĪ ĀL-E DĀWŪD
a town in Lorestān province, situated at the foot of Oštorānkūh, at an altitude of 1,460 m on the route from Tehran to Ḵorramābād at the confluence of the rivers Tīra and Mārbara.
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DŌŠĪ
Daniel Balland
small town and district on the northern slope of the central Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.
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DOŠMANZĪĀRĪ
Pierre Oberling
name of two Lor tribes in southern Persia, the Došmanzīārī-e Mamasanī and the Došmanzīārī-e Kūhgīlūya.
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DŌST MOḤAMMAD KHAN
Amin H. Tarzi
(b. Qandahār December 1792, d. Herat, 9 June 1863), first ruler of the Bārakzay/Moḥammadzay dynasty of Afghanistan. He was the first to bring the region that today constitutes Afghanistan under the control, occasionally tenuous, of a single central government.
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DOTĀR
Jean During
long-necked lute of the tanbūr family, usually with two strings (do tār). The principal feature is the pear-shaped sound box attached to a neck that is longer than the box and faced with a wooden soundboard. Dotārs can be classified in several different types.
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DOZĀLA
Jean During
kind of flute consisting of two parallel pipes pierced with holes and fitted with a removable vibrating mouthpiece made by cutting a U-shaped incision into a thin reed.
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DOZDĀB
Cross-Reference
See ZĀHEDĀN.
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DOZY, REINHARD PETRUS ANNE
J. T. P. de Bruijn
(b. Leiden, 21 February 1820, d. Leiden, 29 April 1883), Dutch orientalist renowned especially as a lexicographer of Arabic and a historian of Muslim Andalusia.
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DRAGON
Cross-Reference
See AŽDAHĀ.