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BOḤŪR AL-ALḤĀN
Taqī Bīneš, Jean During
(Meters of melodies), a treatise on Persian music and prosody by Sayyed Mīrzā Moḥammad-Naṣīr Forṣat Šīrāzī (1855-1920).
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BOIR AḤMADĪ
Reinhold Loeffler, Gernot L. Windfuhr
the largest of the six tribal groups of Kūhgīlūya, inhabiting the mountainous territory from east of Behbahān and north of Dogonbadān to the Kūh-e Denā range in the northeast, an area of some 2,500 sq miles.
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BOJNŪRD
Eckart Ehlers, C. Edmund Bosworth
a town and district in Khorasan. i. The town and district. ii. History. The town (1976: 47,719 inhabitants; lat 37°29’ N, long 57°17’ E) is situated at the foot of the Ālādāḡ.
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BOJNURD iii. Basic Population Data, 1956-2011
Mohammad Hossein Nejatian
Bojnurd has experienced a high rate of population growth, increasing more than tenfold from 1956 to 2011. During the period 1956-76, the average annual growth rate was approximately 4.5 percent. From 1976 to 1986, the population growth rate almost doubled. After the war with Iraq ended, the population growth started to decline. Since 1996, it has continued to decrease, falling to 2.48 percent in the years 2006-2011.
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BOḴĀRĀ
cross-reference
See BUKHARA.
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BOḴĀRĀ-YE ŠARĪF
Michael Zand
“Boḵārā the noble,” the first Central Asian newspaper published in Persian, 1912 to 1913.
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BOḴĀRĪ, ʿABD-AL-KARĪM
Cross-Reference
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BOḴĀRĪ, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN
Wilferd Madelung
ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad, Hanafite scholar of feqh, legal method, kalām theology, and preacher and moftī in Bukhara (d. 1151).
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BOḴĀRĪ, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Hamid Algar
b. Moḥammad (d. 1400), close associate and primary successor of Bahāʾ-al-Dīn Naqšband, the eponym of the Naqšbandī Sufi order.
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BOḴĀRĪ, AMĪR AḤMAD
Hamid Algar
(d. 1516), a Sufi instrumental in establishing the Naqšbandī order in Turkey.