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BAVĀNĀTĪ
Ī. Afšār
(d. 1892-93), MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD-BĀQER, Persian man of letters, poet, instructor of Persian in London, and self-styled prophet.
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BĀVANDIDS
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E BĀVAND.
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BĀVĪ
P. Oberling
(or Bābūʾī), a Luri-speaking tribe of the Kohgīlūya, in Fārs.
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BĀWĪYA
J. Perry
a Shiʿite tribe of Ḵūzestān. They range east and south of Ahvāz, between the Kārūn and Jarrāḥī rivers, to the south of Band-e Qīr and north of Māred.
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BÄX FÄLDISỊN
F. Thordarson
“horse dedication,” a funeral rite practiced by the Ossetes until recent times.
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BAY
Cross-Reference
See BARG-E BŪ.
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BAYĀN (1)
J. T. P. de Bruijn
term (lit. “statement,” “exposition,” “explanation”) from an early date encompassing the various arts of expression in speech and writing. Often ʿelm-e bayān merely denotes rhetoric as a whole.
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BAYĀN (2)
D. M. MacEoin
term applied to the writings of the Bāb in general and to two late works in particular, the Bayān-e fārsī and al-Bayān al-ʿarabī.
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BAYĀNI, JĀR-ALLĀH-ZĀDA
Tahsin Yazici
(d. 1597), Shaikh Moṣtafā, a Turkish poet who composed on the ḡazals of Hāfeẓ.
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BAYĀNĪ, MEHDĪ
M. Dabīrsīāqī
(1906-68), specialist in Persian manuscripts and calligraphy and pioneer in the field of Persian librarianship.
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BAYĀT
G. Doerfer
an important Turkish tribe. A substantial proportion of the Bayāt people must have entered Iran in the train of the Saljuq invaders in the first half of the 11th century.
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BAYĀT(Ī)
J. During
one of the old modes of the Irano-Arabic musical tradition, mentioned for the first time by Šayḵ Ṣafadī (15th century).
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BAYĀT-E EṢFAHĀN
M. Caton
or ĀVĀZ-e EṢFAHĀN, a musical system based on a specific collection of modal pieces (gūšahā) which are performed in a particular order.
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BAYĀT-E KORD
M. Caton
or KORD-e BAYĀT, a part of the modal system (dastgāh) of Šūr in Persian music.
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BAYĀT-E TORK
M. Caton
a musical system (āvāz, naḡma) and one of the branches of the modal system (dastgāh) of Šūr in traditional classical music.
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BAYATỊ, GAPPO
F. Thordarson
(Ger.: Georg-Gappo Baiew; 1869-1939), Ossetic man of letters.
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BAYĀŻ
M.-T. Dānešpažūh
literally “white,” usually a small paper notepad that opens lengthwise and was carried around in an inside pocket. Several such MS are found in various libraries.
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BAYAZIT
R. W. Edwards
(Bāyazīd; Osm. Bayezid), a stronghold located three kilometers southeast of the modern village of Doğubayazit, Turkey, and approximately twenty-five kilometers southwest of Mt. Ararat, important in the defense of Anatolia against invasion from Iran.
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BĀYBŪRTLŪ
P. Oberling
(also Bāybūrdlū), a Turkic tribe of northwestern Iran whose only vestiges seem to be the names of a few historical personalities.
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BĀYDŪ
B. Spuler
a son of Ṭaraḡāy and grandson of Hülegü (Hūlāgū), reigned as il-khan in Iran, 1295.