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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
Cross-Reference
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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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