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  • BERYĀNĪ

    Ṣoḡrā Bāzargān

    (from beryān “roast”), an Iranian meat dish usually served wrapped in flat bread.

  • BĒŠĀPŪR

    Cross-Reference

    See BĪŠĀPŪR.

  • BEŠĀRAT

    Nassereddin Parvin

    (Glad tidings), a weekly Persian journal of news and political comment, Mašhad, 1907.

  • BESĀṬ

    Cross-Reference

    See CARPETS.

  • BESĀṬĪ SAMARQANDĪ

    Zabihollah Safa

    SERĀJ AL-DĪN, Per­sian poet (14th-15th centuries).

  • BESMEL ŠĪRĀZĪ

    Cross-reference

    See NAWWĀB ŠIRĀZI, ʿALI-AKBAR.

  • BESMELLĀH

    Philippe Gignoux, Hamid Algar

    Islamic formula meaning “in the name of God,” more fully Besmellāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm “in the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.”

  • BESSOS

    Michael Weiskopf

    satrap of Bactria and last Achaemenid king (ca. 336-329 BC). From his capital at Bactra (Zariaspa), in the area of modern Balḵ, Bessos exercised control over Bactria, Sogdia to the north, and border regions of India.

  • BESṬĀM (1)

    Wilhelm Eilers

    (or Bestām), an Iranian man’s name; as a result of its past popularity, it is a fairly common component of place names.

  • BESṬĀM (2)

    Wolfram Kleiss

    (or Basṭām), Elamite Rusa-i Uru.Tur, the name of a village at the foot of the ruins of an ancient Urartian hill fortress in the province of West Azerbaijan (85 km southeast of Mākū and 54 km northwest of Ḵᵛoy; altitude ca. 1,300 m above sea level).

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  • BESṬĀM (3)

    Chahryar Adle

    or Basṭām, a small town in the medieval Iranian province of Qūmes and modern Ostān-e Semnān. It is located in a large valley on the southern foothills of the Alborz.

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  • BESṬĀM O BENDŌY

    A. Shapur Shahbazi

    maternal uncles of Ḵosrow II Parvēz and leading statesmen and soldiers under Hormozd IV and Ḵosrow Parvēz.

  • BESṬĀMĪ family

    Richard W. Bulliet

    leading family among the Shafeʿites of Nīšāpūr from the late 4th/10th through the early 6th/12th century.

  • BESṬĀMĪ, BĀYAZĪD

    Hamid Algar

    [Basṭāmī], ABŪ MOḤAMMAD BĀYAZĪD b. ʿEnāyat-Allāh, a 16th-century faqīh and Sufi of Khorasan.

  • BESṬĀMĪ, ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN

    Hamid Algar

    [Basṭāmī], SHAIKH (d. 1405), a Sufi of Herat during the Timurid period.

  • BESṬĀMĪ, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN

    Hamid Algar

    b. Moḥammad b. ʿAlī [Basṭāmī], al-Ḥanafī, al-Ḥorūfī (d.1454), Ottoman polymath of Khorasanian ancestry.

  • BESṬĀMĪ, BĀYAZĪD

    Gerhard Böwering

    [Basṭāmī] (Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Sorūšān), early (9th-century) Muslim mystic of Iran. Much of his fame is owing to ecstatic utterances, which he was the first to employ consistently as expressions of Sufi experience.

  • BĒṮ ĀRAMAYĒ

    Michael Morony

    lit. “land of the Arameans,” the region and Sasanian province of Āsōristān in Iraq between the Jabal Ḥamrīn and Maysān.

  • BĒṮ DARAYĒ

    Michael Morony

    (Arabic Bādarāyā), a district southeast of the lower Nahrawān canal in Gōḵē (Arż Jūḵā), Iraq.

  • BĒṮ GARMĒ

    Michael Morony

    a region and province in northeastern Iraq named after a people, possibly a Persian tribe.