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• BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN MĪRZĀ

  R. D. McChesney

  by most accounts the last of the Chaghatay/Timurid rulers of Badaḵšān (d. ca. 1603). 

• BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN NAṬANZĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ADĪB NAṬANZĪ.

• BADĪHA-SARĀʾĪ

  F. R. C. Bagley

  composition and utterance of something improvised (badīh), usually in verse. Among the Arabs, poetic improvisation was practiced and admired from pre-Islamic times. Among the Iranians, it has been a mark of poetical talent and skill.

• BADĪLĪ, AḤMAD

  H. Algar

  , SHAIKH, a Sufi shaikh in 12th-century Sabzavār, renowned for his mastery of the exoteric as well as the esoteric science. 

• BĀDKŪBA

  Cross-Reference

  See BAKU.

• BĀDPĀYĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ARTHROPODS.

• BADR ČĀČĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a Persian poet of the 14th century, born in the town or district of Čāč (also written Šāš) in Transoxiana.

• BADR JĀJARMĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a 13th-century poet popular in his own time for his rhetorical skills.

• BADR KHAN

  Cross-Reference

  See BEDIR KHAN.

• BADR-AL-DĪN EBRĀHĪM

  S. I. Baevskiĭ

  author of the Persian dictionary Farhang-e zafāngūyā wa jahānpūyā (The eloquent and world-seeking dictionary) composed in India in the late 14th or early 15th century.