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BADĪʿ KĀTEB JOVAYNĪ, MOḤAMMAD
Cross-Reference
See KĀTEB JOVAYNĪ.
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BADĪʿ, ĀQĀ BOZORG
M. Momen
(d. 1869), a young Bahai martyr who has gained a certain distinction in Bahai lore.
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BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN
M. E. Subtelny
(d. ca. 1514), Timurid prince, who rebelled against his father, Sultan Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (r. Herat 1469-1506).
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BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN HAMADĀNĪ
F. Malti-Douglas
(968-1008), Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre. His maqāmāt are a set of adventures narrated in rhymed prose and poetry, revolving around a rogue hero and a narrator.
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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).
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BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN NAṬANZĪ
Cross-Reference
See ADĪB NAṬANZĪ.
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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.
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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.
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BĀDKŪBA
Cross-Reference
See BAKU.
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BĀDPĀYĀN
Cross-Reference
See ARTHROPODS.