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• BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN NAQŠBAND

  H. Algar

  , ḴᵛĀJA MOḤAMMAD B. MOḤAMMAD BOḴĀRĪ (1318-91), eponym of the Naqšbandīya, one of the most vigorous and widespread Sufi orders.

• BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN SOLṬĀN WALAD

  M. I. Waley

  , MOḤAMMAD (1226-1312), Sufi shaikh and poet, son and eventual successor of Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Dīn Rūmī.

• BAHĀʾ-ALLĀH

  Juan Cole

  (1817-92), MĪRZĀ ḤOSAYN-ʿALĪ NŪRĪ,  founder of the Bahai religion or Bahaism. 

• BAHĀDOR

  C. Fleischer

  a Turco-Mongol honorific title, attached to a personal name, signifying “hero, valiant warrior.”

• BAHĀDOR JANG, AMIR

  A. Gheissari

  , ḤOSAYN PASHA KHAN, the head of the royal guards (kešīkčībāšī) and minister of court under Moẓaffar-al-Dīn Shah (r. 1896-1907).

• BAHĀDOR KHAN

  cross-reference

  See ABŪ ḠĀZĪ.

• BAHĀDOR SHAH I, II

  cross-reference

  See MUGHALS.

• BAHĀʾI TABRIZI

  Tahsin Yazici

  , AḤMAD (1874-1925), Persian calligrapher and poet.

• BAHAISM

  Multiple Authors

  or Bahai faith, a religion founded in the nineteenth century by Bahāʾ-Allāh that grew out of the Iranian messianic movement of Babism and developed into a world religion with internationalist and pacifist emphases.

• BAHAISM i. The Faith

  J. Cole

  Bahaism as a religion had as its background two earlier and much different movements in nineteenth-century Shiʿite Shaikhism (following Shaikh Aḥmad Aḥsāʾī) and Babism.