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BAHĀR (2)
Esmāʿil Jassim
a newspaper founded by Shaikh Aḥmad Tehrāni (d. 1957), known as Aḥmad Bahār, in 1917, in Mašhad.
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BAHĀR, MOḤAMMAD-TAQĪ
M. B. Loraine, J. Matīnī
poet, scholar, journalist, politician, and historian (1886-1951). i. Life and work. ii. Bahār as a poet.
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BAHĀR-E KESRĀ
M. G. Morony
“The spring of Ḵosrow,” one of the names of a huge, late Sasanian royal carpet measuring 60 cubits (araš, ḏerāʿ) square (ca. 27 m x 27 m). It was divided among the conquering Muslims after Madāʾen was captured in 637.
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BAHĀRESTĀN (1)
G. M. Wickens
(Spring garden, Abode of spring), an anecdotal and moralistic work of belles-lettres in prose (both plain and rhythmic-rhyming) and verse, by ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān Jāmī, composed in the poet’s old age, in 1487.
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BAHĀRESTĀN (2)
ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
the name of a garden, public square, and complex of buildings in central Tehran.
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BAHĀRESTĀN-E ḠAYBĪ
I. H. Siddiqui
a detailed history in Persian of Bengal and Orissa for the period 1608-24 composed by Mīrzā Nathan ʿAlāʾ-al-Dīn Eṣfahānī.
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BAHĀRI
Mortażā Varzi
(1905-1995), (ʿALI-) AṢḠAR, master of the kamānča (long-necked bowed lute).
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BAHĀRLŪ
P. Oberling
a Turkic tribe of Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Kermān, and Fārs.
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BAHĀRVAND
P. Oberling
a Lur tribe now living mostly in the dehestāns (districts) of Kargāh and Bālā Garīva, south and southwest of Ḵorramābād.
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BAHDĪNĀN
A. Hassanpour
(Kurdish Bādīnān), name of a Kurdish region, river, dialect group, and amirate.
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BAḤĪRĪ FAMILY
R. W. Bulliet
a major Shafiʿite family of Nishapur in the eleventh century.
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BAHMAʾĪ
P. Oberling
a Lur tribe of the Kohgīlūya (Kūh[-e] Gīlūya).
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BAHMAN (1)
J. Narten, Ph. Gignoux
the New Persian name of the Avestan Vohu Manah (Good Thought) and Pahlavi Wahman.
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BAHMAN (2) SON OF ESFANDĪĀR
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
son of ESFANDĪĀR, a Kayanian king of Iran in the national epic.
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BAHMAN (3)
cross-reference
author of Qeṣṣa-ye Sanjān.
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BAHMAN (4)
cross-reference
“avalanche." See BARF.
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BAHMAN JĀDŪYA
M. Morony
(or Jāḏōē), Sasanian general engaged in the defense of the Sawād of ʿErāq during the Muslim conquest in the 630s.
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BAHMAN MĪRZĀ
ʿA. Navāʾī
(d. 1883-84), the fourth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā and brother of Moḥammad Shah (r. 1834-48). Throughout his relatively long exile, he enjoyed the protection and support of the Czarist government.
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BAHMAN MĪRZĀ BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA
ʿA. Navāʾī
37th son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, born 1811 of Golbadan Bājī, originally a (Georgian?) slave girl of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah’s mother Mahd-e ʿOlyā. His diary contains notes on Qajar history.
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BAHMAN YAŠT
W. Sundermann
Middle Persian apocalyptical text preserved in Pahlavi script, a Pāzand (i.e., Middle Persian in Avestan script) transliteration, and a garbled New Persian translation.