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BAḠAVĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN
H. Schützinger
ʿALĪ B. ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. MARZBĀN B. SĀBŪR, traditionist (moḥaddeṯ) and philologist in the 9th century.
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BAGAWAN (1)
H. R. Hewsen
(Arm. Baguan or Aṭʿši Bagawan), ancient district lying along the right bank of the Araxes river and corresponding to the northeastern part of Iranian Azerbaijan.
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BAGAWAN (2)
R. H. Hewsen
an ancient locality in central Armenia situated at the foot of Mount Npat (Gk. Niphates, Turk. Tapa-seyd) in the principality of Bagrewand west of modern Diyadin.
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BĀGAYĀDIŠ
R. Schmitt
name of the seventh month (September-October) of the Old Persian calendar, mentioned in Darius I’s Behistun inscription.
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BAGAYAṞIČ
R. H. Hewsen
site of the great temple of Mihr (Mithras), one of the eight principal pagan shrines of pre-Christian Armenia, traditionally built by Tigranes II the Great (r. 95-56 B.C.).
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BAGAZUŠTA
R. Schmitt
Old Iranian personal name *Baga-zušta- “beloved of the god(s)” attested in the Achaemenid period and after.
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BAḠDĀD
cross-reference
See BAGHDAD.
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BAḠDĀDI FAMILY
Kamran Ekbal
designation of an Arab family of a Bābi, Shaikh Moḥammad Šebl, and his Bahai progeny, his son Moḥammad-Moṣṭafā Baḡdādi, and the latter’s sons, Żiāʾ Mabsuṭ Baḡdādi and Ḥosayn Eqbāl.
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BAḠDĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-QĀHER
J. van Ess
B. ṬĀHER ŠĀFEʿĪ TAMĪMĪ (ca. 961-1038), mathematician, Shafeʿite jurist, and Asḥʿarite theologian.
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BAḠDĀDĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL
H. Algar
(d. 1155), Sufi whose name appears in the initiatic chain of the Neʿmatallāhī order.