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BAYRĀNAVAND
P. Oberling
a Lor tribe of the Pīš(-e)Kūh region in Lorestān.
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BĀYSONḠOR, ḠĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN
H. R. Roemer
B. ŠĀHROḴ B. TĪMŪR (1397-1433), Timurid prince who played an important role as a statesman and a patron of art and architecture and was himself a first-class calligrapher.
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BĀYSONḠORĪ ŠĀH-NĀMA
Dj. Khaleghi Motlagh, T. Lentz
an illuminated and gilded manuscript of Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma measuring 26.5 × 38 cm, containing 346 pages and twenty-one paintings, written in nastaʿlīq, and kept in the former Royal Library (Golestan Palace Museum, no. 6) in Tehran. i. The manuscript. ii. The paintings.
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BAYT
A. Hassanpour
a genre of Kurdish folk art, an orally transmitted story which is either entirely sung or is a combination of sung verse and spoken prose.
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BAYT-AL-ʿADL
M. Momen
(House of Justice), a Bahai administrative institution.
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BAYTUZ
C. E. Bosworth
a Turkish commander who controlled the town of Bost in southern Afghanistan during the middle years of the 10th century.
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BAYŻĀ
C. E. Bosworth
a town of medieval Islamic Fārs (modern Tall-e Bayżā), 25 miles north of Shiraz, 8 farsaḵs according to the medieval geographers and one stage east of the Sasanian and early Islamic town of Eṣṭaḵr.
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BAYŻĀWĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN
E. Kohlberg
Shafeʿite jurist, Asḥʿarite theologian, and renowned Koran commentator (13th-14th centuries).
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BĀZ
H. Aʿlam
general term formerly applied particularly to birds from the genera Falco (falcons) and Accipiter (hawks), which were traditionally prized and trained for hunting game birds.
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BĀZ-NĀMA
Moḥammad-Taqī Dānešpažūh
books or treatises on the keeping and training of falcons.