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• BAYĀT

  G. Doerfer

  an important Turkish tribe. A substantial proportion of the Bayāt people must have entered Iran in the train of the Saljuq invaders in the first half of the 11th century.

• BAYĀT(Ī)

  J. During

  one of the old modes of the Irano-Arabic musical tradition, mentioned for the first time by Šayḵ Ṣafadī (15th century).

• BAYĀT-E EṢFAHĀN

  M. Caton

  or ĀVĀZ-e EṢFAHĀN, a musical system based on a specific collection of modal pieces (gūšahā) which are performed in a particular order.

• BAYĀT-E KORD

  M. Caton

  or KORD-e BAYĀT, a part of the modal system (dastgāh) of Šūr in Persian music.

• BAYĀT-E TORK

  M. Caton

  a musical system (āvāz, naḡma) and one of the branches of the modal system (dastgāh) of Šūr in traditional classical music.

• BAYATỊ, GAPPO

  F. Thordarson

  (Ger.: Georg-Gappo Baiew; 1869-1939), Ossetic man of letters.

• BAYĀŻ

  M.-T. Dānešpažūh

  literally “white,” usually a small paper notepad that opens lengthwise and was carried around in an inside pocket. Several such MS are found in various libraries.

• BAYAZIT

  R. W. Edwards

  (Bāyazīd; Osm. Bayezid), a stronghold located three kilometers southeast of the modern village of Doğubayazit, Turkey, and approximately twenty-five kilometers southwest of Mt. Ararat, important in the defense of Anatolia against invasion from Iran.

• BĀYBŪRTLŪ

  P. Oberling

  (also Bāybūrdlū), a Turkic tribe of northwestern Iran whose only vestiges seem to be the names of a few historical personalities.

• BĀYDŪ

  B. Spuler

  a son of Ṭaraḡāy and grandson of Hülegü (Hūlāgū), reigned as il-khan in Iran, 1295.