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DELHI SULTANATE
Gavin R. G. Hambly, Catherine B. Asher
Muslim kingdom established in northern India by Central Asian Turkish warlords at the turn of the 13th century and continuing in an increasingly persianized milieu until its conquest by Bābor in 1526. The political style of the rulers of Delhi reflected traditional concepts of Persian kingship.
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DELĪKĀNLŪ
Pierre Oberling
tribe of the Ḵalḵāl region in eastern Persian Azerbaijan.
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DELKAŠ
Erik Nakjavani
stage name of ʿEṣmat Bāqerpur Panbaforuš (b. Bābol, Māzandarān, 1924; d. Tehran, 2004) popular Persian singer and actress of the mid-20th century.
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DELKAŠ (1)
Cathérine Poujol
(b. Bukhara at an indeterminate date, d. Bukhara, 1902), Tajik poet and musician known and revered for melodies performed on the tanbūr.
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DELKAŠ (2)
Jean During
an important modal unit (šāh gūša) linked to the dastgāh Māhūr, constituting one of its four main modulations, perhaps the most important in expressive function, which contrasts strongly with that of Māhūr itself.
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DELLA VALLE, PIETRO
John Gurney
(b. Rome, 11 April 1586, d. Rome, 21 April 1652), one of the most remarkable travelers of the Renaissance, whose Viaggi is the best contemporary account of the lands between Istanbul and Goa in the early 17th century.
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DELOUGAZ
Ezat O. Negahban
(b. Ukraine, 16 July 1901, d. Čoḡā Mīš, Persia, 29 March 1975), archeologist and excavator of the ancient site of Čoḡā Mīš in Persia.
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DELŠĀD BARNĀ
Evelin Grassi
(1800-1905), Tajik educator, historian, and poetess bilingual in Persian and Chaghatay Turkish.
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DELŠĀD ḴĀTŪN
Charles Melville
eldest daughter of the Chobanid Demašq Ḵᵛāja and Tūrsīn Ḵātūn, granddaughter of the Il-khanid sultan Aḥmad Takūdār.
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DEMARATUS
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
king of Sparta (from at least as early as 510 B.C.E.) who took refuge with Darius I.
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DEMAŠQ ḴᵛĀJA
Charles Melville
third son of the amir Čobān, possibly born in 1300, when his father was on campaign in Damascus.
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DEMETRIUS
A. D. H. Bivar
name of two Greco-Bactrian kings.
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DEMOCEDES
RÜDIGER SCHMITT
(Gk. Dēmokḗdēs), Greek physician attached to the court of Darius I and praised as “the most skillful physician of his time” by Herodotus.
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DEMOCRACY
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DEMOCRAT PARTY
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DEMOGRAPHY
Bernard Hourcade, Daniel Balland
the statistical study of characteristics of human populations. Since World War II Persia, formerly a rural and tribal country dominated by elderly notables and with low population growth, has come to have a majority of young urban dwellers, mostly literate and multiplying rapidly.
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DEMOTIC CHRONICLE
Edda Bresciani
Egyptian papyrus document of the early 2nd century B.C.E. in which anti-Persian themes, especially focused on Cambyses, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes III, were elaborated in Ptolemaic Egyptian sacerdotal and intellectual surroundings.
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DEMOTTE ŠĀH-NĀMA
Priscilla P. Soucek
illustrated manuscript, now dispersed, of Ferdowsī’s epic poem, often identified by the name of a former owner, the Paris dealer Georges Demotte (active ca. 1900-23). It is generally believed to have been produced for a patron associated with the Il-khanid court and is renowned for the quality of its paintings.
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DĒN
Mansour Shaki
theological and metaphysical term with a variety of meanings: “the sum of man’s spiritual attributes and individuality, vision, inner self, conscience, religion.”
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DĒN YAŠT
Jean Kellens
a relatively short text, consisting for the most part of repetitive or formulaic sentences.