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• BAHRĀMĪ, FARAJ-ALLĀH

  M. Amānat

  , DABĪR AʿẒAM (1878/79?-1951), Reżā Shah’s personal secretary and an early supporter who played a key role in Reżā Shah’s control of absolute power.

• BAHRĀMŠĀH B. MASʿŪD (III)

  C. E. Bosworth

  B. EBRĀHĪM, ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR, Ghaznavid sultan in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern India (r. 1117-1157?).

• BAHRĀMŠĀH B. ṬOḠRELŠĀH

  Cross-Reference

  See SALJUQS OF KERMĀN.

• BAHRĀMŠĀH SHROFF

  cross-reference

  See BEHRAMSHAH NAOROJI SHROFF.

• BAḤRĀNĪ, AḤMAD

  E. Kohlberg

  B. MOḤAMMAD B. YŪSOF B. ṢĀLEḤ (d. 1690-91), described as the leading representative in his generation of Imami Shiʿite scholarship in Bahrain.

• BAḤRĀNĪ, HĀŠEM

  W. Madelung

  B. SOLAYMĀN (d. 1695-96), Imami Shiʿite scholar and author. The number of his books and treatises is said to have approached seventy-five.

• BAḤRĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  W. Madelung

  (also KAMĀL-AL-DĪN) ʿALĪ B. SOLAYMĀN SETRAWĪ, Imami Shiʿite scholar and philosopher inclining to mysticism (13th century).

• BAḤRĀNĪ, YŪSOF

  E. Kohlberg

  B. AḤMAD B. EBRĀHĪM DERĀZĪ (b. 1695-96, d. 1772), Imami Shiʿite author and jurisprudent.

• BAḤRAYN

  cross-reference

  See BAHRAIN.

• BAḤRĪ, MAḤMŪD

  R. M. Eaton

  Sufi and poet of the Deccan (fl. late 17th century).

• BAIDU

  Cross-Reference

  See BĀYDŪ.

• BAIEV, GAPPO

  cross-reference

  See BAYATI, GAPPO.

• BAILEY, HAROLD WALTER

  John Sheldon

  (1899-1996), one of the greatest scholars in the field of the comparative study of Iranian languages, especially notable for much ground-breaking work on the Middle Iranian Saka language of Khotan.

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• BĀJ (1)

  A. V. Williams

  a principal Zoroastrian observance meaning primarily “utterance of consecration;” reference to bāj has been current in Mazdean literature since at least Sasanian times,

• BĀJ (2)

  W. Floor

  a term denoting tribute to be paid by vassals to their overlord, in which sense it is also used as a generic term “tax,” or as referring to road tolls.

• BĀJALĀN

  P. Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe in the dehestāns of Qūratū, Ḏohāb and Jagarlū in the šahrestān of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, on the Iraqi border.

• BĀJARVĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  a town in the medieval Islamic province of Mūḡān, the area southwest of the Caspian Sea and south of the Kor (Kura) and Aras (Araxes) rivers.

• BĀḴARZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  or Govāḵarz, a district of the medieval Islamic province of Qūhestān/Qohestān in Khorasan.

• BĀḴARZĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ

  Z. Safa

  Iranian littérateur of the 11th century who composed poems in both Persian and Arabic, notable in the art of letter-writing (tarassol).

• BAKHSHIEV MISHI

  M. Zand

  (1910-1972), Judeo-Tat author.