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DŪST-ʿALĪ MOʿAYYER
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See MOʿAYYER-AL-MAMĀLEK.
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DŪST-MOḤAMMAD HERAVĪ
Chahryar Adle
(d. probably Qazvīn, shortly after 1564), master calligrapher, the only artist whom Shah Ṭahmāsb I kept with him after having gradually dismissed all the others from his direct service.
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DŪST-MOḤAMMAD MOṢAWWER
Chahryar Adle
(d. ca. 1560), master painter, known in the Indo-Persian world and even among the Ottomans as a painter (moṣawwer), paper cutter (qāṭeʿ), calligraphic tracer/outliner (moḥarrer), and perhaps binder (saḥḥāf) and gilder (moḏahheb).
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DUTCH-PERSIAN RELATIONS
Willem Floor
Until the 16th century the Dutch knew little of Persia; Franciscus Raphelengius, at Leiden University, drew up a short list of Persian words based on the first Persian text ever printed, a translation of the Pentateuch in Hebrew characters.
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DŪZAḴ
Mansour Shaki
hell.
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DUŽYĀIRYA
Antonio Panaino
bad year or bad harvest.
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DVIN
Erich Kettenhofen
city in Armenia located north of Artaxata on the left bank of the Azat, about 35 km south of the present Armenian capital at Yerevan. It remained a significant center from the Sasanian period to the 13th century, and its pleasant climate was mentioned by many authors.
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DYAKONOV, MIKHAIL MIKHAĬLOVICH
Boris Litvinsky
(b. St. Petersburg, 26 June 1907, d. Moscow, 8 June 1954), Russian scholar of Iranian studies.
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DYES
Cross-Reference
See CARPETS ii.
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Dād
music sample
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Darviš Khān – Pishdarāmad
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Dastgāh-e Čahārgāh
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Dastgāh-e Māhur
music sample
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Dašti
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Delkaš (1)
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Delkaš (2)
music sample
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Denaseri
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Deylamān
music sample
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Divāna šo
music sample
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D~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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list of all the figure and plate images in the letter D entries.