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Diwan of al-Mutanabbi

The Diwan of al-Mutanabbi (ديوان المتنبي) is the collected poetry of al-Mutanabbi (915–965), the Abbasid poet born in Kufa, among the most widely read works of classical Arabic literature.

Diwan of Bashar ibn Burd

The Diwan of Bashar ibn Burd is the collected Arabic poetry of the blind Basran poet Bashshar ibn Burd, a leading early Abbasid poet who died around 784.

Diwan of Ibn al-Farid

The Diwan of Ibn al-Farid (ديوان ابن الفارض) is the collected poetry of the Egyptian Sufi poet Ibn al-Farid (1181–1235), centered on divine love and mystical intoxication.

Diwan of Ibn al-Rumi

The Diwan of Ibn al-Rumi (ديوان ابن الرومي) is the collected poetry of the Baghdad poet Ibn al-Rumi (836–896), reputedly the largest diwan in early Arabic literature.

Diwan of Ibn Quzman

The Diwan of Ibn Quzman (ديوان ابن قزمان) is the principal surviving collection of zajal, the vernacular song-poetry of al-Andalus, by the Cordoban poet Ibn Quzman (died 1160).

Diwan of Ibn Zaydun

The Diwan of Ibn Zaydun (ديوان ابن زيدون) is the collected Arabic poetry of Ibn Zaydun, the 11th-century Cordoban vizier considered the outstanding poet of al-Andalus.

Diwan of Jarir

The Diwan of Jarir (ديوان جرير) collects the poetry of Jarir ibn 'Atiyya (died 728 CE), a Basra poet famous for his lampooning exchanges with al-Farazdaq.

Diwan of Shalom Shabazi

The Diwan of Shalom Shabazi is the songbook of Yemenite Jewry, an anthology of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Aramaic poetry, mostly by the seventeenth-century poet Shalom Shabazi.

Diwan-e-Anis

Diwan-e-Anis (دیوانِ انیس) is the collected poetic work of Mir Babbar Ali Anis (1802–1874), the Lucknow poet regarded as a greatest master of the Urdu marsiya.

Diwan-e-Ghalib

Diwan-e-Ghalib (دیوانِ غالب) is the collected Urdu poetry of the Delhi poet Mirza Ghalib, chiefly ghazals, and one of the most widely read books of Urdu verse.

Diwan-e-Mir

Diwan-e-Mir (دیوانِ میر) is the collection of Urdu ghazals by Mir Taqi Mir (1722/23–1810), ranked among the greatest masters of the Urdu ghazal, comprising six divans with 1,915 ghazals in total.

Diwan-e-Mirza Sauda

Diwan-e-Mirza Sauda (دیوانِ مرزا سودا) is the collected Urdu poetry of Mirza Muhammad Rafi' Sauda, who died in 1781 and is ranked first in Urdu satire and counted among the language's canonical poets.

Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi

Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi (دیوانِ نظیر اکبرآبادی) is the printed collection of the poetry of Nazeer Akbarabadi, with about 13,000 couplets on seasons, festivals, and ordinary life; the standard edition was edited by Mirza Farhatullah Beg in 1942.

Diwan-e-Wali

Diwan-e-Wali (دیوانِ ولی) is the collected divan of the Deccani Urdu poet Wali Deccani, whose arrival in Delhi in 1720 brought Urdu poetry recognition there.

Diwani ya Muyaka

Diwani ya Muyaka is the collected edition of the Swahili poems of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, a poet of Mombasa active from about 1810 to 1840.

Diwani ya Shaaban Robert

Diwani ya Shaaban Robert is a 14-volume collected-works series in Swahili of the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, first published by Evans in London in 1966.

Django/Zorro

Django/Zorro is a seven-issue 2014–2015 Dynamite/Vertigo comic, the first comic sequel to a Tarantino film, co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner, teaming Django Freeman with an aged Zorro; a Sony film adaptation scripted by Brian Helgeland is in development.

Djibril – The Devil Angel

Djibril – The Devil Angel (魔界天使ジブリール, Makai Tenshi Jiburiru) is a 2004 Frontwing Windows adult visual novel about a transforming angel heroine, spawning sequels, OVAs, and the 2020 DMM browser game 電脳天使ジブリール.

Dmitry the Pretender

Dmitry the Pretender (Димитрий Самозванец) is a five-act tragedy in verse by Alexander Sumarokov, first performed in 1771 and the first Russian play to bring recent national history to the stage, drawing on False Dmitry I.

Do Gaz Zameen

Do Gaz Zameen (دو گز زمین, "Two Yards of Land") is a 1988 Urdu historical novel by the Indian writer Abdussamad, winner of the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Do not go gentle into that good night

"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a 1952 villanelle by Dylan Thomas urging resistance to death and ending with an address to his father.

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, originally titled "Immortality" by Clare Harner, is a popular bereavement poem first published in The Gypsy in 1934, though often misattributed to Mary Elizabeth Frye; known for the Japanese song Sen no Kaze ni Natte.

Do Sau Bavan Vaishnavan ki Varta

Do Sau Bavan Vaishnavan ki Varta (दो सौ बावन वैष्णवन की वार्ता) is a Braj Bhasha hagiography of 252 disciples of Vitthalnath in the Pushtimarg sect.

Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?

Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? (Okaa-san Online) is a Japanese isekai light novel by Dachima Inaka and Pochi Iida, 11 volumes 2017–2020, with a 2019 J.C.Staff anime about gamer Masato and his overpowered mother Mamako.

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle, created by Hugh Lofting in 1920, is a Puddleby-on-the-Marsh doctor who learns animal speech from his parrot Polynesia; the WWI-trench letters origin, 15-book series, racist original editions, and 1967, 1998, and 2020 films distinguish it.

Doctor Glas

Doctor Glas (Doktor Glas) is a 1905 diary-form novel by Hjalmar Söderberg, about a Stockholm physician who murders to save a young woman from her unhappy marriage.

Doctor Sleep (novel)

Doctor Sleep is Stephen King's 2013 Scribner sequel to The Shining, following adult Dan Torrance, a recovering alcoholic hospice worker, who protects Abra Stone from the True Knot and Rose the Hat.

Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn is the vicar-smuggler hero of Russell Thorndike's Romney Marsh novels, first appearing in Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh (1915); secretly pirate Captain Clegg, he leads the Scarecrow's night-riding smugglers, spawning six prequels and film adaptations.

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) (novel)

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго), Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel of physician-poet Yuri Zhivago through the Russian Revolution; published in Milan by Feltrinelli, banned in the USSR until Novy Mir printed it in 1988, and the cause of Pasternak's declined 1958 Nobel Prize.

Dodo Chanesar

Dodo Chanesar (دودو چنيسر) is a Sindhi heroic epic about a succession dispute between two Soomra brothers, in which Dodo falls defending Sindh against Sultan Alauddin Khilji.