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• BAHĀRLŪ

  P. Oberling

  a Turkic tribe of Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Kermān, and Fārs.  

• BAHĀRVAND

  P. Oberling

  a Lur tribe now living mostly in the dehestāns (districts) of Kargāh and Bālā Garīva, south and southwest of Ḵorramābād.  

• BAHDĪNĀN

  A. Hassanpour

  (Kurdish Bādīnān), name of a Kurdish region, river, dialect group, and amirate.  

• BAḤĪRĪ FAMILY

  R. W. Bulliet

  a major Shafiʿite family of Nishapur in the eleventh century.  

• BAHMAʾĪ

  P. Oberling

  a Lur tribe of the Kohgīlūya (Kūh[-e] Gīlūya).  

• BAHMAN (1)

  J. Narten, Ph. Gignoux

  the New Persian name of the Avestan Vohu Manah (Good Thought) and Pahlavi Wahman.

• BAHMAN (2) SON OF ESFANDĪĀR

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  son of ESFANDĪĀR, a Kayanian king of Iran in the national epic.  

• BAHMAN (3)

  cross-reference

  author of Qeṣṣa-ye Sanjān.

• BAHMAN (4)

  cross-reference

  “avalanche." See BARF.

• BAHMAN JĀDŪYA

  M. Morony

  (or Jāḏōē), Sasanian general engaged in the defense of the Sawād of ʿErāq during the Muslim conquest in the 630s.