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• BEH

  Wilhelm Eilers, Hūšang Aʿlam, Nesta Ramazani

  “quince, Cydonia.”  i. The word.  ii. The tree.  iii. Culinary uses of the fruit. Wild quince trees are found in the Caucasus, and the cultivated variety may have originated there.

• BEH-ARDAŠĪR

  Michael Morony

  (Mid. Pers. Vēh-Ardaxšēr, Ar. Bahorasīr), name of two cities founded by the first Sasanian king of kings, Ardašīr I (r. 226-41).

• BEH-QOBĀD

  Michael Morony

  (Mid. Pers. Vēh-Kavāt), an administrative district created by the Sasanian king Qobād I in the early sixth century along the Babylon branch of the Euphrates.

• BEHĀFARĪD

  Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī

  Zoroastrian heresiarch and self-styled prophet, killed 748-49.

• BEḤĀR AL-ANWĀR

  Etan Kohlberg

  (Oceans of light) by Mollā Moḥammad-Bāqer b. Moḥammad-Taqī Majlesī (d. 1699 or 1700), an encyclopedic compilation in Arabic of Imamite traditions.

• BEHBAHĀN

  Aḥmad Eqtedārī

  Iranian city and county (šahrestān) in the province of Ḵūzestān.

• BEHBAHAN

  Multiple Authors

  a city and sub-province in Khuzestan province.

• BEHBAHAN ii. Population, 1956-2011

  Mohammad Hossein Nejatian

  This article deals with the following population characteristics of Behbahan: population growth from 1956 to 2011, age structure, average household size, literacy rate, and economic activity status.

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• BEHBAHĀNĪ, ʿABD-ALLĀH

  cross-reference

  See ʿABD-ALLĀH BEHBAHĀNĪ.

• BEHBAHĀNĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  Hamid Algar

  (1874-1963), AYATOLLAH, a leading mojtahed of Tehran who played a role of some importance in the events of the first two postwar decades.