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  • BEHZĀD

    Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

    in the traditional history, the name of the black horse belonging successively to Sīāvoš, Kay Ḵosrow, and Goštāsb.

  • BEHZĀD, ḤOSAYN

    Layla Diba

    (1894-1968), lacquer artist, painter, and book illustrator.

  • BEHZĀD, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN

    Priscilla Soucek

    master painter, proverbial for his skill, active in Herat during the reign of the Timurid Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (1470-1506).

  • BEKTĀŠ, ḤĀJĪ

    Hamid Algar

    (d. 1270-71?), Khorasanian Sufi and eponym of the Bektāšī order, once widespread in Anatolia and the Balkans, with offshoots in Egypt, Iraq, and Western Iran.

  • BEKTĀŠĪYA

    Hamid Algar

    a syncretic and heterodox Sufi order, found principally in Anatolia and the Balkans, with offshoots in other regions, named after Ḥājī Bektāš and regarding him as its founding elder (pīr).

  • BELBĀS

    Pierre Oberling

    a former Kurdish tribal confederacy of northwestern Iran and northeastern Iraq.

  • BELDERČĪN

    Hūšang Aʿlam

    (quail, Coturnix coturnix L.). The quail is mentioned in both the Bible and the Koran. Allusions to these Koranic reminiscences are occasionally found in Persian poetry. Various virtues are attributed to the quail in traditional or popular Islamic medicine.

  • BELGIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONS

    Annette Destrée

    Official diplomatic relations between Belgium and Iran date from the end of the nineteenth century.

  • BELGRĀMĪ, ʿABD-AL-JALĪL

    cross-reference

    See ʿABD-AL­-JALĪL BELGRĀMĪ.

  • BELGRĀMĪ, ĀZĀD

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀZĀD BELGRĀMĪ.