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  • BADAḴŠĀNI, Sayyed SOHRĀB WALI

    Farhad Daftary

    the most prominent Central Asian Nezāri Ismaʿili theologian and author of the early centuries after the fall of Alamut.

  • BADAḴŠĪ SAMARQANDĪ

    Z. Safa

    the poet laureate (malek-al-šoʿarāʾ) of the Timurid Mīrzā Uluḡ Beg (murdered 1449).

  • BADAḴŠĪ, MOLLĀ SHAH

    H. Algar

    (also known as Shah Moḥammad; 1584-1661), a mystic and writer of the Qāderī order, given both to the rigorous practice of asceticism and to the ecstatic proclamation of theopathic sentiment.

  • BADAL

    Cross-Reference

    See PAṦTŪNWĀLĪ.

  • BĀDĀM

    X. de Planhol, N. Ramazani

    “almond.”  i. General.  ii. As food.  The genus Amygdalus is very common in Iran and Afghanistan and throughout the Turco-Iranian area.

  • BĀDĀN B. SĀSĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See ABNĀʾ.

  • BĀDĀN PĪRŪZ

    Cross-Reference

    See ARDABĪL.

  • BADAŠT

    M. Momen

    small village of about 1,000 inhabitants, site of a conference  convened on the instructions of the Bāb in 1848.

  • BADĀʾŪNĪ, ʿABD-AL-QĀDER

    A. S. Bazmee Ansari

    (1540-ca. 1615), polyglot man of letters, historian, and translator of Arabic and Sanskrit works into Persian during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar.

  • BĀDĀVARD

    Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

    (windfall), the name of one of the seven treasures of Ḵosrow Parvēz in the Šāh-nāma.