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• 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

  Multiple Authors

  name of six Sasanian kings and of several notables of the Sasanian and later periods. The name derives from Old Iranian Vṛθragna, Avestan Vərəθraγna, the god of victory.

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• Bahrām I

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  the fourth Sasanian king and son of Šāpūr I.

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• Bahrām II

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  the fifth Sasanian king (r. 274-291), succeeding his father Bahrām I. In his reign,  Sasanian art achieved a high degree of excellence especially in the representations of the king and his courtiers.

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