Table of Contents
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, ABŪ NAṢR FĪRŪZ
cross-reference
See BUYIDS.
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ
E. Kohlberg
(1547-1621), SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN BAHĀʾĪ, Imami scholar and author, a prolific writer, in Imami circles regarded as one of the leading lights of his age.
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN BAḠDĀDĪ
Z. Safa
(d. after 1289), MOḤAMMAD B. MOʾAYYAD, a master of the art of Persian letter-writing (tarassol).
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḴARAQĪ
D. Pingree
(d. 1138-39), ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD, author of a work was on astronomy, geography, and chronology.
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD WALAD
H. Algar
B. ḤOSAYN B. AḤMAD ḴAṬĪB BALḴĪ (1151-1231), scholar, father of the great Sufi poet Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Dīn Rūmī.
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN NAQŠBAND
H. Algar
(1318-91), ḴᵛĀJA MOḤAMMAD B. MOḤAMMAD BOḴĀRĪ, eponym of the Naqšbandīya, one of the most vigorous and widespread Sufi orders.
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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN SOLṬĀN WALAD
M. I. Waley
(1226-1312), MOḤAMMAD, Sufi shaikh and poet, son and eventual successor of Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Dīn Rūmī.
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BAHĀʾ-ALLĀH
Juan Cole
(1817-92), MĪRZĀ ḤOSAYN-ʿALĪ NŪRĪ, founder of the Bahai religion or Bahaism.
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BAHĀDOR
C. Fleischer
a Turco-Mongol honorific title, attached to a personal name, signifying “hero, valiant warrior.”
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BAHĀDOR JANG, AMIR
A. Gheissari
ḤOSAYN PASHA KHAN, the head of the royal guards (kešīkčībāšī) and minister of court under Moẓaffar-al-Dīn Shah (r. 1896-1907).