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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• BAHMAN-ARDAŠĪR

  M. Morony

  (or Forāt Maysān), ancient and medieval town and subdistrict in Maysān in lower Iraq. The town of Forāt is known from the first century A.D. as a fortified terminus for caravan trade on the left bank of the lower Tigris, eleven or twelve miles downstream from Charax.

• BAHMAN-NĀMA

  W. L. Hanaway, Jr.

  epic poem in Persian of about 9,500 lines recounting the adventures of Bahman son of Esfandīār.

• BAHMANAGĀN

  cross-reference

  See BAHMANJANA.

• BAHMANID DYNASTY

  N. H. Ansari

  dynasty (1347-1528) in the Deccan, the tableland region in India. The Bahmanid kingdom was not only the first independent Muslim kingdom in southern India, but it was also one of the greatest centers of Iranian culture in the subcontinent.

• BAHMANJANA

  Z. Safa

  Arabicized form of Mid. Pers. Bahmanagān, one of the Zoroastrian festival days which Muslim Iranians observed down to the Mongol invasion in 1219.

• BAHMANŠĪR

  X. de Planhol

  the name of the distributary which branches off the left bank of the Kārūn river in the Ḵūzestān plain a short distance above Ḵorramšahr, and of a dehestān near this town.

• BAHMANYĀR, AḤMAD

  J. Matīnī

  scholar, educator, and man of letters (1884-1955). His written works are characterized by clarity and simplicity of language.