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BAYHAQ
C. E. Bosworth
a rural area (rostāq) of medieval Khorasan, between the district of Nīšāpūr and the eastern borders of Qūmes, and its town, also known as Sabzavār.
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BAYHAQĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL
Ḡ.-Ḥ. Yūsofī
MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN, secretary at the Ghaznavid court and renowned Persian historian (995-1077).
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BAYHAQĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD
H. Halm
B. ŠOʿAYB ʿEJLĪ NAYSĀBŪRĪ (d. 936), a jurist who helped promote the spread of the Shafeʿite school of Islamic law in Khorasan.
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BAYHAQĪ, EBRĀHĪM
C. E. Bosworth
B. MOḤAMMAD, 10th-century Arabic littérateur, author of a work of adab.
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BAYHAQĪ, ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN
H. Halm
ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ B. ZAYD (ca. 1097-1169), also known as Ebn Fondoq, an Iranian polymath of Arab descent, author of the Tārīḵ-e Bayhaq.
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BĀYJŪ
P. Jackson
Mongol general and military governor in northwestern Iran (fl. 1228-1259). He belonged to the Besüt tribe and was a kinsman of Jengiz Khan’s general Jebe (Jaba).
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BAYLAQĀN
C. E. Bosworth
a town of the medieval Islamic region of Arrān, the classical Caucasian Albania, lying in the triangle between the Kor and Aras (Araxes) rivers.
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BĀYQARĀ B. ʿOMAR ŠAYḴ
E. Glassen
(b. 1392-93, d. 1422-23?), a Timurid prince and grandson of Tīmūr, active in Fārs.
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BAYRAM KHAN
N. H. Ansari
(or BAYRĀM) KHAN, Moḥammad Ḵān(-e) Ḵānān (d. 1561), an illustrious and powerful Iranian noble at the court of the Mughal emperors Homāyūn and Akbar.
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BAYRĀMŠĀH
Ḡ.-Ḥ. Yūsofī
(d. 1367-69), the beloved companion (nadīm) of Sultan Oways, second ruler (r. 1356 to 1374-75) of the Jalayerids.