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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • DELŠĀD BARNĀ

    Evelin Grassi

    (1800-1905), Tajik educator, historian, and poetess bilingual in Persian and Chaghatay Turkish.

  • DELŠĀD ḴĀTŪN

    Charles Melville

    eldest daughter of the Chobanid Demašq Ḵᵛāja and Tūrsīn Ḵātūn, granddaughter of the Il-khanid sultan Aḥmad Takūdār.

  • DEMARATUS

    RÜDIGER SCHMITT

    king of Sparta (from at least as early as 510 B.C.E.) who took refuge with Darius I.

  • DEMAŠQ ḴᵛĀJA

    Charles Melville

    third son of the amir Čobān, possibly born in 1300, when his father was on campaign in Damascus.

  • DEMETRIUS

    A. D. H. Bivar

    name of two Greco-Bactrian kings.

  • 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.

  • DEMOCRACY

    Cross-Reference

    See ANJOMAN; CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION i-v; ELECTIONS.

  • DEMOCRAT PARTY

    Cross-Reference

    See CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • DĒN YAŠT

    Jean Kellens

    a relatively short text, consisting for the most part of repetitive or formulaic sentences.