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• BORHĀN-AL-DĪN, ḴᵛĀJA ABŪ NAṢR FATḤ-ALLĀH

  F. R. C. Bagley

  a vizier (d. 1358) eulogized by Ḥāfeẓ in two ḡazals (nos. 374 and 478).

• BORHĀN-AL-MAʾĀṮER

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• BORHĀN-E JĀMEʿ

  Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī

  (Comprehensive proof), title of a dictionary (completed 1833) by Moḥammad-Karīm b. Mahdīqolī Garmrūdī Šaqāqī.

• BORHĀN-E QĀṬEʿ

  Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī

  (Conclusive proof), the title of a Persian dictionary compiled in India in the 11th/17th century by Moḥammad-Ḥosayn b. Ḵalaf Tabrīzī, who used the pen-name Borhān.

• BORHĀNIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E BORHĀN.

• BORHĀNPŪRĪ, BORHĀN-AL-DĪN

  Richard M. Eaton

  Indo-Persian Sufi of the Šaṭṭārī order (d. 1089/1678).

• BÖRI

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  or Böritigin,  name of a Turkish commander in Ḡazna and of the ruler of the western branch of the Qarakhanid dynasty of Transoxania.

• BORJ

  Abbas Daneshvari, David Pingree

  in both Persian and Arabic with two principal meanings: 1. tower, castle, or fortress; dovecote; 2. a sign of the zodiac, and by extension a solar mansion, a month.

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• BORJ-E ṬOḠROL

  Bernard O’Kane

  name commonly applied to a large tomb tower of the Saljuq period situated near Ray.

• BORJ-NĀMA

  Žāla Āmuzgār

  maṯnawi by Anuširavān b. Marzbān Rāvari (17th century), who wrote poems on several subjects relating to the Zoroastrian religion and uses several Zoroastrian terms here.

• BOROUGH, Christopher

  Parvin Loloi

  (fl. 1579-1587), English merchant and linguist who traveled to Russia and Persia as an interpreter with the sixth voyage by the Muscovy Company to establish trade with these countries.

• BOROWSKY, ISIDORE

  Bo Utas

  (ca. 1770-ca. 1838), Polish officer in the Persian army, said to have been fatally injured by a bullet in the abdomen during the second siege of Herat in 1837-38.

• BORQAʿĪ

  Hamid Algar

  (Ar. Borqoʿī), AYATOLLAH ʿALĪ-AKBAR (b. 1900), religious leader of the postwar period to whom leftist tendencies were imputed and whose name became embroiled in a significant incident in Qom in January, 1953.

• BORŪJ

  cross-reference

  See BORJ.

• BORŪJERD

  Eckart Ehlers

  (or Barūjerd), town and šahrestān in the province of Lorestān in western Iran. It has always been a road and railway junction of great strategic importance.

• BORŪJERDĪ, ḤOSAYN ṬABĀṬABĀʾĪ

  Hamid Algar

  , AYATOLLAH ḤĀJJ ĀQĀ (1875-1961), director (zaʿīm) of the religious teaching institution (ḥawza) at Qom Qom for seventeen years and sole marjaʿ-e taqlīd of the Shiʿite world for fifteen years.

• BORŪJERDĪ, ḤOSAYN

  Hamid Algar

  b. Moḥammad-Reżā Ḥosaynī, Shiʿite scholar of the Qajar period (d. ca. 1860); his main work was  a collection of chronograms on the deaths of famous transmitters of ḥadīṯ.

• BORŪMAND, NŪR-ʿALĪ

  Bruno Nettl

  (1905-1977), one of the foremost authorities on the performance and history of Persian classical music in the 20th century.

• BORZMEHR

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (Pahlavi, lit. “deep affection”) one of the priests (mōbed) and scribes who served Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79).

• BORZŪ-NĀMA (article 1)

  William L. Hanaway, Jr.

  an epic poem of ca. 65,000 lines recounting the exploits and adventures of the legendary hero Borzū, son of Sohrāb.