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• BĀBAK ḴORRAMI

  Ḡ. -Ḥ. Yūsofī

  leader of the Ḵorramdīnī or Ḵorramī uprising in Azerbaijan in the early 9th century (d. 838), which engaged the forces of the caliph for 20 years before it was crushed in 837.

• BĀBAKĪYA

  Cross-Reference

  See ḴORRAMĪS.

• BABAN

  C. E. Bosworth

  (or Bavan), a small town in the medieval Islamic province of Bāḏḡīs, to the north and west of Herat.

• BĀBĀN

  W. Behn

  (or Baban), Kurdish princely family in Solaymānīya, ruling an area in Iraqi Kurdistan and western Iran (17th—19th centuries) and actively involved in the Perso-Ottoman struggles.

• BĀBĀN DYNASTY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E BĀBĀN.

• BĀBAY

  A. Vööbus

  catholicos of the Persian Church elected at the synod at Seleucia in 497 (d. 502).

• BĀBAY OF NISIBIS

  N. Sims-Williams

  Christian Syriac writer who flourished about the beginning of the seventh century CE; a homily of his is attested in Sogdian.

• BĀBAY THE GREAT

  A. Vööbus

  (d. 628), abbot and prominent leader in the Nestorian church in Iran under Ḵosrow II.

• BĀBEL

  Cross-Reference

  See BABYLON.

• BABILLA, ASHUR BANIPAL IBRAHIM

  Khosro Shayesteh

  actor, director, playwright, and visual artist.

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