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DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED JAʿFAR
Andrew J. Newman
b. Abī Esḥāq Mūsawī Borūjerdī Kašfī (b. Eṣṭahbānāt in Fārs, 1775, d. Borūjerd 1851), religious scholar, nephew of the Aḵbārī Yūsuf b. Aḥmad Baḥrānī and father of Sayyed Yaḥyā Waḥīd Dārābī.
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DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED YAḤYĀ
Moojan Momen
(b. Yazd, ca. 1811, d. Neyrīz, 1850), Babi leader usually known as Waḥīd (unique), a title given him by the Bāb; the eldest son of Sayyed Jaʿfar Kašfī Eṣṭah-bānātī, he received a Muslim religious education and, like his father, was associated with the Qajar court.
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DARABPAHLAN, DASTUR
Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa
Zoroastrian priest and author (b. Navsari, Gujarat, 1668, d. Navsari, 1 September 1734), eldest son of Pahlan Fredoon, who was accorded the title “dastur” (high priest) and the privilege of occupying the second chair in the Zoroastrian assembly of the small port of Navsari in 1670 or perhaps earlier.
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DARAFŠ -E KĀVĪĀN
Cross-Reference
See DERĀFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN.
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DĀRĀʾĪ, WEZĀRAT
Cross-Reference
See FINANCE MINISTRY.
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DARĀMAD
Jean During
lit., “introduction”; an episode in the course of a musical performance, the nature and length of which vary with the material introduced.
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DARARIĀN, Vigen
Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi
(1929-2003) renowned pop singer and performer on the guitar.
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DARĀZ-DAST
Cross-Reference
See DERĀZ-DAST; ARDAŠĪR; BAHMAN (2).
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DARB -E EMĀM
Parvīz Varjāvand
large shrine complex in the old Sonbolestān quarter of Isfahan. The main structure, consisting of entrance portal (sar-dar), vestibule, and tomb, was built in 1453 and expanded and modified several times during the Safavid period.
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DARBĀ
Cross-Reference
See BĀR; COURTS AND COURTIERS.
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DARBAND
Erich Kettenhofen
(Ar. Bāb al-Abwāb), ancient city in Dāḡestān on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, located at the entrance to the narrow pass between the Caucasus foothills and the sea.
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DARBAND EPIGRAPHY
Multiple Authors
epigraphic remains on the walls of Darband, from Sasanian through Medieval Islamic times.
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DARBAND EPIGRAPHY i. MIDDLE PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS
Murtazali Gadjiev
Thirty-two Pahlavi inscriptions of the mid-6th century CE are engraved on the defensive walls of the city of Darband.
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DARBAND EPIGRAPHY ii. DAR-E QIĀMAT SHRINE
Murtazali Gadjiev
a medieval Muslim cultic site, now forgotten and non-functioning, in Darband.
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DARBAND QUARTER
Bernard Hourcade
a former village in the summer resort (yeylāq) of Šamīrān, situated at an elevation of 1,700 m on the extreme northern edge of the capital, where the Alborz foothills begin.
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DARBANDĪ, MULLA ĀQĀ
Hamid Algar
b. ʿĀbed b. Ramażān, commonly known as Fāżel Darbandī (d. Tehran, 1869-70), Shiʿite scholar and preacher of the Qajar period, renowned for his disputatious and irascible character.
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DARBĀR -E AʿẒAM
Guity Nashat
lit., “the great court”; a council of ministers established in October 1872 as one of several experiments undertaken in the reign of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96) to reorganize and rationalize the Persian administration on the model of Western cabinet government.
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DĀRČĪNĪ
Hūšang Aʿlam
lit., “Chinese tree/wood."
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D'ARCY, JOSEPH
Kambiz Eslami
(Pers. “Mester Bārūt,” “Qūlūnel Khan,” “Qonsūl Khan”; b. Portsmouth, England, 14 March 1780, d. Lymington, England, 17 February 1848), major (later lieutenant colonel) in the British Royal Artillery who arrived in Persia in 1226/1811 with the ambassador Sir Gore Ouseley; he was one of a group of British officers and enlisted men who were to reform and equip the Persian army.
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D'ARCY, WILLIAM KNOX
Fuad Rouhani
(b. Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England, 11 October 1849, d. Stanmore, Middlesex, England, 1 May 1917), petroleum entrepreneur and founder of the oil industry in Persia and the Middle East.