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BAḤĪRĪ FAMILY
R. W. Bulliet
a major Shafiʿite family of Nishapur in the eleventh century.
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BAHMAʾĪ
P. Oberling
a Lur tribe of the Kohgīlūya (Kūh[-e] Gīlūya).
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BAHMAN (1)
J. Narten, Ph. Gignoux
the New Persian name of the Avestan Vohu Manah (Good Thought) and Pahlavi Wahman.
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BAHMAN (2) SON OF ESFANDĪĀR
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
son of ESFANDĪĀR, a Kayanian king of Iran in the national epic.
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BAHMAN (3)
cross-reference
author of Qeṣṣa-ye Sanjān.
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BAHMAN (4)
cross-reference
“avalanche." See BARF.
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BAHMAN JĀDŪYA
M. Morony
(or Jāḏōē), Sasanian general engaged in the defense of the Sawād of ʿErāq during the Muslim conquest in the 630s.
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BAHMAN MĪRZĀ
ʿA. Navāʾī
(d. 1883-84), the fourth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā and brother of Moḥammad Shah (r. 1834-48). Throughout his relatively long exile, he enjoyed the protection and support of the Czarist government.
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BAHMAN MĪRZĀ BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA
ʿA. Navāʾī
37th son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, born 1811 of Golbadan Bājī, originally a (Georgian?) slave girl of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah’s mother Mahd-e ʿOlyā. His diary contains notes on Qajar history.
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BAHMAN YAŠT
W. Sundermann
Middle Persian apocalyptical text preserved in Pahlavi script, a Pāzand (i.e., Middle Persian in Avestan script) transliteration, and a garbled New Persian translation.