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• BĀBĀ AFŻAL-AL-DĪN

  William Chittick

  poet and author of philosophical works in Persian (d. ca. 1213-14).

• BĀBĀ BEG

  cross-reference

  See JŪYĀ.

• BĀBĀ FAḠĀNI

  Z. Safa

  Persian poet of the 15th-16th centuries.

• BĀBĀ FARĪD

  Cross-Reference

  a major Shaikh of the Češtīya mystic order, born in the last quarter of the 12th century in Kahtwāl near Moltān, Punjab. See GANJ-E ŠAKAR, Farid-al-Din Masʿud.

• BĀBĀ ḤĀTEM

  A. S. Melikian-Chirvani

  11th-century mausoleum in northern Afghanistan, some 40 miles west of Balḵ. It follows the simple plan of the earliest Islamic mausoleums in the Iranian world—a single square room with a cupola resting on squinches.

• BĀBĀ JĀN ḴORĀSĀNI

  Priscilla Soucek

  16th-century calligrapher, poet, and craftsman.

• BĀBĀ JĀN TEPE

  R. C. Henrickson

  archeological site in northeastern Luristan, important primarily for excavations of first-millennium B.C. levels.

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• BĀBĀ KUHI

  M. Kasheff

  popular name of Shaikh Abū ʿAbdallāh Moḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿObaydallāh Bākūya Šīrāzī, Sufi of the 10th-11th centuries.

• BĀBĀ ŠAMAL

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  weekly satirical periodical, 1943-45, founded by Reżā Ganjaʾī. It was impartially opposed to all foreign intervention and influence in Iran.

• BĀBĀ SAMMĀSĪ

  H. Algar

  , ḴᵛĀJA MOḤAMMAD (d. 1354), Central Asian Sufi of the line known as selsela-ye ḵᵛājagān (line of the masters).