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• BAHMANYĀR, KĪĀ

  H. Daiber

  RAʾĪS ABU’L-ḤASAN B. MARZBĀN AʿJAMĪ ĀḎARBĀYJĀNĪ (d. 1066), one of Ebn Sīnā’s pupils and known mainly as a commentator and transmitter of Ebn Sīnā’s philosophy.

• BAḤR

  cross-reference

  See BAḤR-E ṬAWĪL.

• BAḤR-AL-ʿOLŪM

  H. Algar

  (1155/1742-1212/1797), a Shiʿite scholar who exercised great influence both in Iraq and in Iran through the numerous students he trained.  

• BAḤR-E ḴAZAR

  cross-reference

  ḴAZAR. See CASPIAN SEA.

• BAḤR-E ḴᵛĀRAZM

  cross-reference

  See ARAL SEA.

• BAḤR-E ʿOMĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See OMAN, SEA OF.

• BAḤR-E ṬAWĪL

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a type of Persian verse. generally the repetition of a whole foot (rokn) of the meter hazaj (ᴗ - - -) or of a whole foot of the meter ramal (- ᴗ - -) or a variation of the two.

• BAHRA

  P. Clawson and W. Floor

  a term meaning “share,” “gain,” or “profit,” used within the economic context of Islamic Iran to mean “return on investment or production.”

• BAHRAIN

  X. De Planhol, X. De Planhol, J. A. Kechichian

  Ar. Baḥrayn, lit. “two seas,” the name originally applied to the area of the northeastern Arabian peninsula now known as Ḥasā (Aḥsāʾ). i. Geography. ii. Shiʿite elements in Bahrain. iii. History of political relations with Iran.

• BAHRĀM (1)

  G. Gnoli, P. Jamzadeh

  the Old Iranian god of victory, Avestan Vərəθraγna (“smiting of resistance”);  Middle Persian Warahrān, frequently used as a male proper name.

• BAHRĀM (2)

  A. Sh. Shahbazi, O. Klíma, W. L. Hanaway, Jr.

  the name of six Sasanian kings and of several notables of the Sasanian and later periods.

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• BAHRĀM (3)

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  son of GŌDARZ, in the Šāh-nāma a hero in the reigns of Kay Kāōs and Kay Ḵosrow, renowned for his valiant service in all the wars.

• BAHRĀM B. MARDĀNŠĀH

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  a Zoroastrian priest (mōbed) of the town of Šāpūr in Fārs, mentioned in several Arabic and Persian sources as a translator of the Xwadāy-nāmag from Pahlavi into Arabic.

• BAHRĀM MĪRZĀ

  P. Soucek

  (1517-49), youngest son of Shah Esmāʿīl, full brother of Shah Ṭahmāsb, who relied on his loyalty and military valor for assistance against both his internal and external enemies.

• BAHRĀM MĪRZĀ, MOʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA

  ʿA. Navāʾī

  (d. 1882), second son of the crown prince ʿAbbās Mīrzā, minor figure in military affairs and administration.

• BAHRĀM newspaper

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  newspaper in Tehran, 1943-47.

• BAHRĀM O GOLANDĀM

  cross-reference

  See KĀTEBĪ.

• BAHRĀM PAŽDŪ

  Ž. Āmūzgār

  Zoroastrian poet of the 13th century. His only surviving poem celebrates spring, Nowrūz and those who had propagated the Zoroastrian religion.

• BAHRĀM SĪĀVOŠĀN

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (Bahrām son of Sīāvoš), in the Šāh-nāma a supporter of Bahrām Čōbīn in the power struggle during the reigns of Hormozd IV (578-90) and Ḵosrow II Parvēz (590-628).

• BAHRĀMĪ SARAḴSĪ

  Z. Safa

  , ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ, Persian poet and literary scholar, one of the many at the court at Ḡazna in the reigns of Sultan Maḥmūd (r. 998-1030) and his sons.