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• BAHMANYĀR, KĪĀ

  H. Daiber

  RAʾĪS ABU’L-ḤASAN B. MARZBĀN AʿJAMĪ ĀḎARBĀYJĀNĪ (d. 1066), one of Ebn Sīnā’s pupils and known mainly as a commentator and transmitter of Ebn Sīnā’s philosophy.

• BAḤR

  cross-reference

  See BAḤR-E ṬAWĪL.

• BAḤR-AL-ʿOLŪM

  H. Algar

  (1155/1742-1212/1797), a Shiʿite scholar who exercised great influence both in Iraq and in Iran through the numerous students he trained.  

• BAḤR-E ḴAZAR

  cross-reference

  ḴAZAR. See CASPIAN SEA.

• BAḤR-E ḴᵛĀRAZM

  cross-reference

  See ARAL SEA.

• BAḤR-E ʿOMĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See OMAN, SEA OF.

• BAḤR-E ṬAWĪL

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a type of Persian verse. generally the repetition of a whole foot (rokn) of the meter hazaj (ᴗ - - -) or of a whole foot of the meter ramal (- ᴗ - -) or a variation of the two.

• BAHRA

  P. Clawson and W. Floor

  a term meaning “share,” “gain,” or “profit,” used within the economic context of Islamic Iran to mean “return on investment or production.”

• BAHRAIN

  X. De Planhol, X. De Planhol, J. A. Kechichian

  Ar. Baḥrayn, lit. “two seas,” the name originally applied to the area of the northeastern Arabian peninsula now known as Ḥasā (Aḥsāʾ). i. Geography. ii. Shiʿite elements in Bahrain. iii. History of political relations with Iran.

• BAHRĀM (1)

  G. Gnoli, P. Jamzadeh

  the Old Iranian god of victory, Avestan Vərəθraγna (“smiting of resistance”);  Middle Persian Warahrān, frequently used as a male proper name.