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BADAḴŠĀNI, Sayyed SOHRĀB WALI
Farhad Daftary
the most prominent Central Asian Nezāri Ismaʿili theologian and author of the early centuries after the fall of Alamut.
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BADAḴŠĪ SAMARQANDĪ
Z. Safa
the poet laureate (malek-al-šoʿarāʾ) of the Timurid Mīrzā Uluḡ Beg (murdered 1449).
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BADAḴŠĪ, MOLLĀ SHAH
H. Algar
(also known as Shah Moḥammad; 1584-1661), a mystic and writer of the Qāderī order, given both to the rigorous practice of asceticism and to the ecstatic proclamation of theopathic sentiment.
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BADAL
Cross-Reference
See PAṦTŪNWĀLĪ.
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BĀDĀM
X. de Planhol, N. Ramazani
“almond.” i. General. ii. As food. The genus Amygdalus is very common in Iran and Afghanistan and throughout the Turco-Iranian area.
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BĀDĀN B. SĀSĀN
Cross-Reference
See ABNĀʾ.
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BĀDĀN PĪRŪZ
Cross-Reference
See ARDABĪL.
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BADAŠT
M. Momen
small village of about 1,000 inhabitants, site of a conference convened on the instructions of the Bāb in 1848.
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BADĀʾŪNĪ, ʿABD-AL-QĀDER
A. S. Bazmee Ansari
(1540-ca. 1615), polyglot man of letters, historian, and translator of Arabic and Sanskrit works into Persian during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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BĀDĀVARD
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
(windfall), the name of one of the seven treasures of Ḵosrow Parvēz in the Šāh-nāma.