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BAḤRĀNĪ, HĀŠEM
W. Madelung
B. SOLAYMĀN (d. 1695-96), Imami Shiʿite scholar and author. The number of his books and treatises is said to have approached seventy-five.
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BAḤRĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN
W. Madelung
(also KAMĀL-AL-DĪN) ʿALĪ B. SOLAYMĀN SETRAWĪ, Imami Shiʿite scholar and philosopher inclining to mysticism (13th century).
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BAḤRĀNĪ, YŪSOF
E. Kohlberg
B. AḤMAD B. EBRĀHĪM DERĀZĪ (b. 1695-96, d. 1772), Imami Shiʿite author and jurisprudent.
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BAḤRAYN
cross-reference
See BAHRAIN.
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BAḤRĪ, MAḤMŪD
R. M. Eaton
Sufi and poet of the Deccan (fl. late 17th century).
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BAIDU
Cross-Reference
See BĀYDŪ.
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BAIEV, GAPPO
cross-reference
See BAYATI, GAPPO.
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BAILEY, HAROLD WALTER
John Sheldon
(1899-1996), one of the greatest scholars in the field of the comparative study of Iranian languages, especially notable for much ground-breaking work on the Middle Iranian Saka language of Khotan.
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BĀJ (1)
A. V. Williams
a principal Zoroastrian observance meaning primarily “utterance of consecration;” reference to bāj has been current in Mazdean literature since at least Sasanian times,
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BĀJ (2)
W. Floor
a term denoting tribute to be paid by vassals to their overlord, in which sense it is also used as a generic term “tax,” or as referring to road tolls.
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BĀJALĀN
P. Oberling
a Kurdish tribe in the dehestāns of Qūratū, Ḏohāb and Jagarlū in the šahrestān of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, on the Iraqi border.
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BĀJARVĀN
C. E. Bosworth
a town in the medieval Islamic province of Mūḡān, the area southwest of the Caspian Sea and south of the Kor (Kura) and Aras (Araxes) rivers.
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BĀḴARZ
C. E. Bosworth
or Govāḵarz, a district of the medieval Islamic province of Qūhestān/Qohestān in Khorasan.
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BĀḴARZĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ
Z. Safa
Iranian littérateur of the 11th century who composed poems in both Persian and Arabic, notable in the art of letter-writing (tarassol).
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BAKHSHIEV MISHI
M. Zand
(1910-1972), Judeo-Tat author.
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BAḴŠĪ
P. Jackson
a Buddhist lama or scholar, in particular during Mongol hegemony in Iran; subsequently, by extension, any kind of scribe or secretary.
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BAḴT
W. Eilers, S. Shaked
“fate, destiny,” often with the positive sense of “good luck” (ḵᵛošbaḵtī). i. The term. ii. The concept.
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BAḴTAGĀN LAKE
E. Ehlers
part of the Lake Nīrīz basin situated about 1,525 m above sea level in the province of Fārs, approximately 50 km east of Shiraz. At present, it is common to divide the basin of the Nīrīz into a northern portion (daryāča-ye Ṭašk) and a larger southern part (daryāča-ye Baḵtagān).
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BAḴTAK
F. Gaffary
a folkloric she-creature of horrible shape, personifying a nightmare. Baḵtak resembles the Āl, another “female devil” of Iranian folklore.
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BĀḴTAR (1)
A. Tafażżolī
designation of the geographical “west” in Modern Persian, but its Pahlavi equivalent abāxtar means “north,” probably borrowed from Parthian.