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BANŪ LAḴM
Cross-Reference
See ḤIRA.
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BANŪ MĀJŪR
cross-reference
See BANŪ AMĀJŪR.
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BANŪ MONAJJEM
D. Pingree
a family of intellectuals, closely connected to the caliphs of the 9th-10th centuries and claiming descent from an ancient Iranian lineage.
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BANŪ MŪSĀ
D. Pingree
name applied to three brothers, 9th-century ʿAbbasid astronomers and engineers.
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BANŪ OMAYYA
cross-reference
See OMMAYADS.
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BĀNŪ PĀRS
M. Boyce
“Lady of Pārs,” the name of a Zoroastrian shrine in the mountains at the northern end of the Yazd plain.
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BANŪ SĀJ
W. Madelung
a family named after its ancestor Abu’l-Sāj which served the ʿAbbasid caliphate (9th-10th centuries).
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BANŪ SĀSĀN
C. E. Bosworth
a name frequently applied in medieval Islam to beggars, rogues, charlatans, and tricksters of all kinds, allegedly so called because they stemmed from a legendary Shaikh Sāsān.
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BAQĀʾ WA FANĀʾ
G. Böwering
Sufi term signifying “subsistence and passing away,” that is, passing away from worldly reality and being made subsistent in divine reality.
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BĀQELĀ
H. Aʿlam
broad beans, the grains of Vicia faba L. In Iran, this crop is grown rather extensively in the Caspian provinces and, to a lesser extent, in the south and southwest.