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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BORŪJ
cross-reference
See BORJ.
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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.
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BORUJERD
Multiple Authors
town and sub-province in Lorestan Province in western Iran.
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BORUJERD ii. Population, 1956-2011
Mohammad Hossein Nejatian
This article deals with the following population characteristics of Borujerd: population growth from 1956 to 2011, age structure, average household size, literacy rate, and economic activity status.
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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.
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BORŪJERDĪ, ḤOSAYN ṬABĀṬABĀʾĪ
Hamid Algar
(1875-1961), AYATOLLAH ḤĀJJ ĀQĀ, director (zaʿīm) of the religious teaching institution (ḥawza) at Qom for seventeen years and sole marjaʿ-e taqlīd of the Shiʿite world for fifteen years.
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Borumand - Daramads of šur
music sample
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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.
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BORZMEHR
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
(Pahlavi, lit. “deep affection”) one of the priests (mōbed) and scribes who served Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79).
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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.
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BORZU-NĀMA (article 2)
Gabrielle van den Berg
an epic poem named after its main hero, Borzu, son of Sohrāb and grandson of Rostam. The Borzu-nāma belongs to the cycle of epics dealing with the dynasty of the princes of Sistān.
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BORZŪYA
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
(also transcribed Burzōē), a physician of the time of Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79) and responsible for a translation of the Pañcatantra from Sanskrit to Pahlavi, the Persian translation of which is known as the Kalīla wa Demna.
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BOSḤĀQ AṬʿEMA
Heshmat Moayyad
(d. 1420s), FAḴR-AL-DĪN ḤALLĀJ ŠĪRĀZĪ, satirical poet who used Persian culinary vocabulary and imagery and kitchen terminology to create a novel style of poetry.
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Hamid Algar
The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina came to assimilate virtually all the cultural habits and interests of the Ottoman Turks; for the learned elite, this included an acquaintance with Persian language and literature.
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BOŠRŪʾĪ, Mollā Moḥammad-Ḥosayn
Denis M. MacEoin
Shaikhi ʿālem who became the first convert to Babism, provincial Babi leader in Khorasan, and organizer of Babi resistance in Māzandarān (1814-49).
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BOST
Klaus Fischer, Xavier de Planhol
archeological site and town located near the confluence of the Helmand and Arḡandāb rivers in southwest Afghanistan.