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Dominus: A title of one of the ministers in Constantinople
donativum: money given by Roman emperors to Roman soldiers
donkeys: A practice
doum palm: Hyphaena thebaica
dragons: A practice
dreams: A practice
dried meat: A practice
Drinking rain-water: A practice
drought: A practice
drum-band: A practice
drum-beating: A practice
dshkhoy: Title for an Armenian queen
ducat: A type of coin
dūgī: "type of millet in South Russia"
duke of Austria: title
dunqura: "brass basin (gong) in the Maldives"
dyeli: "bard in Māllī"
Dyers: A practice
dying of grief: A practice
ear-piercing: A practice
earthquake(s) expected during the apocalypse: A practice
earthquakes: A practice
Easter: A practice
eastern liturgies: A practice
Eastertide: The period from Easter to Pentecost
eating dogs: A practice
eating donkey meat: A practice
eating locusts: A practice
ebony-tree: A practice
ecumenical council: A gathering to which all (orthodox) Christian bishops are invited, thought to have authority over all Christians everywhere
Ecumenical Patriarchate: A practice
Egypt, banners in: Armies gather in Egypt in advance of a major battle in a Muslim conception of the apocalypse
elchi: An envoy
elephantiasis: A practice
elephants: A practice
elephant statue: A practice
Elias: the name
elixir: An alchemical substance to turn copper into gold
Embalming: A practice
Emigrants: A practice
emoluments of religious offices in Mecca: A practice
emperor: The leader of the Byzantine Empire, a role to which various titles were assigned
endowments of the convent: A practice
enslaved women: A practice
entry permit: A practice
Eparch of Constantinople: an administrative position in the Byzantine Empire
Epiphany: church feast
era of Ascalon: A practice
era of Nabonassar: A practice
era of Tyre: A practice
ermine: fur
Ertoğrul: the name
Erythraean Sibyl: A practice
escheating of heritages: A practice
espionage: A practice
eucharist: A Christian sacramental meal of bread and wine
eunuch: A practice
exchange rates: A practice
excommunication: A Christian church punishment, excluding someone from partaking of the Eucharist
Exilarch: Leader of the Jewish community in Babylon/Iraq
Exilarch's revenue: Derived from merchants
Faḍiyāru Kalōge-fānu: "title of Maldivian judge"
Fair outside Ezekiel's tomb: A practice
fāl: "seven hundred cowries"
fāmaldārī: "Maldivian head of chancery"
famine: A practice
fanams: A practice
fānūs: Folding lanterns used for Ramadan
faqir: A practice
farajiyya: "robe (of goat’s hair)"
farbā: "deputy"
fardkhāneh: "private room"
farewell circuit : A practice
farewell gift : A practice
fari: military commanders in Mali
Farmers: A practice
farqaʿa: "rod with twisted cord (used by the preacher)"
farrāshūn: "footmen"
farsakh: A unit of length
Fast of the Ninevites: A practice
Fatimid caliph: A practice
fāzānīya: "coconut-palm attendants"
Feast of Jacob "the Cut-Up": martyr in Persia
feast of Mar Agrippas: A practice
feast of Mār Bar Ṣawmā: feast day
feast of St. Barbara: feast day
Feast of St. Theodore: A practice
Feast of the Ascension: A practice
Feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God: A practice
Feast of the Cross: a Christian festival commemorating the finding of the Cross of Christ by Constantine's mother Helene, celebrated in mid-September
Feast of the Holy Doctors: a feast in honor of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa, in early January
Feast of the Passover: A Jewish and Samaritan holiday
Feast of the Transfiguration: A Christian feast
feasts: A practice
February: month
female genital mutilation: A practice
festival of Forty Martyrs of Sebaste: A practice
fête: A practice
feud: A practice
fever: A practice