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DĒN-DIBĪRĪH
Cross-Reference
See DABĪRE, DABĪRĪ.
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DĒNAG
Philippe Gignoux
name of several Sasanian queens; it was not feminine by derivation but was clearly reserved for feminine prosopography.
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DENIKE
Anatol Ivanov
(b. Kazan, 15 January 1885, d. Moscow, 13 October 1941), the first Russian historian of the medieval art of the Near and Far East.
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DENḴA TEPE
Oscar White Muscarella
a Bronze and Iron Age site situated in the Ošnū valley of Azerbaijan, southwest of Lake Urmia, and 15 miles west of the major Iron Age site of Hasanlu (Ḥasanlū) in the Soldūz valley.
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DĒNKARD
Philippe Gignoux
lit., “Acts of the religion”; written in Pahlavi, a summary of 10th-century knowledge of the Mazdean religion; the editor, Ādurbād Ēmēdān, entitled the final version “The Dēnkard of one thousand chapters.”
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DENMARK
Fereydun Vahman, Jes P. Asmussen
: relations with Persia. Danish-Persian relations have been concentrated in three main areas: politics and diplomacy; trade and other economic relations; and Iranian studies in Denmark, including collections of Persian art in Danish museums.
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DENŠAPUH
James Russell
short form of Vehdenšapuh; Sasanian hambārakapet (quartermaster) involved in the campaign of Yazdagerd II (438-57) to force Christian Armenians to abjure their faith and return to Zoroastrianism; a gem bearing his name is preserved in the British Museum in London.
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DENTISTRY
Ṣādeq Sajjādī
(dandān-pezeškī) in Persia.
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DEOBAND
Barbara Daly Metcalf
country town northeast of Delhi in what is now the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India, where an influential Dār al-ʿolūm was founded by a group of religious scholars in 1867 as an expression of a major religious reform movement partly inspired by British educational models.
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DEPORTATIONS
A. Shapur Shahbazi, Erich Kettenhofen, John R. Perry
forced transfers of population from one region to another.
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DERAFŠ
A. Shapur Shahbazi
lit. “banner, standard, flag, emblem,” in ancient Iran. In the Avesta Bactria “with tall banners,” a fluttering “bull banner,” and enemy banners are mentioned. In the Achaemenid period each Persian army division had its own standard (Herodotus, 9.59), and “all officers had banners over their tents" (Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.13).
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DERAFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
the legendary royal standard of the Sasanian kings.
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DERAḴT
Hūšang Aʿlam
tree, shrub.
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DERAḴT-E ANJIR-E MAʿĀBED
LOQMĀN TADAYON-NEŽĀD
the last and highly acclaimed work of fiction by Ahmad Mahmud.
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DERĀZ-DAST
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
having long hands.
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DERBEND
Cross-Reference
See DARBAND.
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DERHAM
Cross-Reference
See DIRHAM.
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DERHAM B. NAŻ
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Naṣr or Ḥosayn; commander of ʿayyārs or moṭawweʿa, orthodox Sunni vigilantes against the Kharijites in Sīstān during the period immediately preceding the rise of the Saffarid brothers to supreme power there.
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DEŚANĀ
Hiroshi Kumamoto
Khotanese term with two meanings: “showing," that is, “preaching” the law, and “profession” of faith or “confession” of sins.
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DESERT
Brian Spooner
bīābān. As throughout most of the arid zone agriculture and settlement depend upon sustained investment, Persians generally expect to find bīābān where ābādī (settled, irrigated agriculture) ends. The term bīābān covers a broad range of different types of desert, from completely barren expanses to plains with significant percentages of vegetation cover.
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