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BĀQER KHAN SĀLĀR-E MELLI
A. Amanat
one of the popular heroes of the Constitutional Revolution during the defense of Tabrīz in the period of the Lesser Autocracy (June, 1908-July, 1909).
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BĀQER, ABŪ JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD
W. Madelung
The fifth imam of the Twelver Shiʿites (7th-8th century).
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BĀQĪBELLĀH NAQŠBANDĪ
J. G. J. Ter Haar
(d. 1603), ḴᵛĀJA ABU’L-MOʾAYYAD RAŻĪ-AL-DĪN OWAYSĪ; As a Naqšbandi, he represents the sober type of Sufi, adhering to the Islamic law (šarīʿa) and averse to ecstatic mystical experiences.
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BĀQLAVĀ
W. Eilers, N. Ramazani
i. The word. ii. The sweet. Bāqlavā is a sweet pastry known throughout the Middle East, in Iran commonly made with almonds (bādām), less frequently with pistachios (pesta).
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BAQLĪ, RŪZBEHĀN
cross-reference
SHAIKH. See RŪZBEHĀN.
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BAQQĀL-BĀZĪ
F. Gaffary
(lit. grocer play), a form of improvised, popular slapstick comedy; it is distinguished among the various forms of popular comedy in Iran by its own set of rules.
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BĀR
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh, Ḥ. Farhūdī
“audience.” The royal audience was one of the most important and enduring of the court ceremonies practiced in Iran. i. From the Achaemenid through the Safavid period. ii. The Qajar and Pahlavi periods.
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BAR HEBRAEUS
Cross-Reference
(b. Malaṭīa, 1225; d. Marāḡa, 1286), Syriac historian and polymath. See EBN AL-ʿEBRĪ, ABU’L-FARAJ.
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BAR KŌNAY, THEODORE
J. P. Asmussen
8th-9th-century Nestorian teacher and writer from Kaškar in Mesopotamia. His The Book of Scholiais notable for its sections on Zarathustra and Mani.
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BAR-E MEHR
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a fire temple in Yazd. See DAR-E MEHR.