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Dayr al-Jamājim (monastery): monastery close to the Euphrates where several major battles were fought; most famously perhaps in 701 CE, between Umayyad army led by al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf against the mostly Iraqi followers of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath

Dayr al-Jaraʿa (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Jāthalīq (monastery): A monastery near Baghdad's Bāb al-Ḥadīd

Dayr al-Jubb (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Jūdī (unknown): A place

Dayr Kādhī (unknown): in Harran

Dayr al-Kalb (unknown): A place

Dayr Kardsahīr (unknown): A place

Dayr Khālid (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Khall (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Khanāfis (unknown): A place

al-Dayr al-Khaṣīb (unknown): A place

Dayr Khindif (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Khiṣyān (monastery): A monastery in al-Ghawr between Damascus and Jerusalem

Dayr Khunāṣira (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Khuwāt (unknown): A place

Dayr Kūm (monastery): A monastery near the village Kūm, near al-ʿAmādiyya in the Hakkārī region north of Mosul

Dayr Lubbā (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Lujj (unknown): A place

Dayr Maʿbad (monastery): A monastery mentioned in poetry alongside Darb Darrāj

Dayr Malkīsāwā (unknown): A place

Dayr Manṣūr (unknown): A place

Dayr Marʿabdā (unknown): A place

Dayr Mār Fāthyūn (unknown): A place

Dayr Marḥannā (unknown): A place

Dayr Mārī (monastery): near Marʿash

Dayr Marjurjis (unknown): A place

Dayr Marjurjīs (unknown): A place

Dayr Marmājurjus (unknown): A place

Dayr Marmārī (monastery): A monastery outside Samarrā at Qanṭarat Waṣīf

Dayr Marmāʿūth (unknown): A place

Dayr Marqus (unknown): A place

Dayr Mārt Marūthā (unknown): A place

Dayr Mārt Maryam (unknown): A place

Dayr Mār Tūmā (monastery): A monastery on a hill two farsakhs from Mayperqat

Dayr Maryuḥannā (unknown): A place

Dayr Maryūnān (unknown): A place

Dayr Māsarjabays (unknown): A place

Dayr Māsarjān (monastery): A monastery in Iraq from which al-Hajjaj took building material

Dayr al-Māṭirūn (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Mazʿūq (unknown): A place

Dayr Midyān (unknown): A place

Dayr Mīkhāʾīl (monastery): A monastery near Mosul

Dayr Mīmās (unknown): A place

Dayr MKhRʾQ (monastery): A monastery in Khūzistān

Dayr MSḤL (monastery): A monastery between Ḥimṣ and Baʿlabakk

Dayr al-Mughān (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Muḥallā (unknown): A place

Dayr Muḥammad (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Muḥarraq (unknown): A place

Dayr Murrān (unknown): A place

Dayr Nahyā (unknown): A place

Dayr Najrān (monastery): A monastery in Buṣrā in the Ḥawrān near Damascus

Dayr Najrān (monastery): A monastery in Yemen

Dayr al-Naml (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Naqīra (monastery): A monastery west of al-Ma`arra, where `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz was reportedly buried

Dayr Nuʿm (unknown): A place

Dayr al-NWBHʾN (monastery): A monastery mentioned in poetry alongside Dayr Fīq

Dayr al-Qāʾim al-Aqṣā (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Qalamūn (unknown): A place

Dayr Qānūn (monastery): in Syria

Dayr Qays (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Qayyāra (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Qibāb (unknown): A place

Dayr Qinnisrī (monastery): A place

Dayr Qunnā (unknown): A place

Dayr Qurra (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Quṣayr (unknown): A place

Dayr Qūṭā (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Rūm (unknown): A place

Dayr al-Rummān (unknown): A place

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