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• BOḴĀRĪ, JALĀL-AL-DĪN

  Richard M. Eaton

  (1308-84), SHAIKH, popularly known as Maḵdūm-e Jahānīān and Jahāngašt, a celebrated Indo-Persian Sufi of Uch in the southern Punjab.

• BOḴĀRĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ŠARĪF

  Robert D. McChesney

  ĀḴŪND MOLLĀ, also known as Šarīf-e Boḵārī and Mollā Šarīf, the leading Koran exegete and traditionist in Transoxiana (late 17th century).

• BOKĀVOL

  David O. Morgan

  (büke’ül), a term used in the Il-khanid period and after for a royal food taster or, later and more commonly, a military commissariat officer.

• BOKAYR B. MĀHĀN

  ʿAbbās Zaryāb

  MARVAZĪ, ABŪ HĀŠEM (d. 745-46), a leading ʿAbbasid propagandist (dāʿī).

• BOḴT-ARDAŠĪR

  Jes P. Asmussen

  name of a town (Mid. Pers. rōstāg) that Ardašīr I is said to have founded as an expression of his gratitude to God during his flight from the court of the last Parthian king, Ardawān.

• BOḴT-NARSA

  cross-reference

  See NEBUCHADNEZZAR.

• BOḴTĪŠŪʿ

  Lutz Richter-Bernburg

  the name of the eponymous ancestor of a Syro-Persian Nestorian family of physicians from Gondēšāpūr, Ḵūzestān, 8th-11th centuries, and of several of its members.

• BOLANDMĀZŪ

  cross-reference

  See BALŪṬ.

• BOLBOL “nightingale”

  Hūšang Aʿlam, Jerome W. Clinton

  “nightingale.” i. The bird. ii. In Persian literature. The term bolbol is applied to at least three species of the genus Luscinia (fam. Turdidae). To Persian poets, however, all refer to a single bird, characterized by its sweet  or plaintive song, supposedly sung for its beloved, the rose.

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• BOLBOL, AŠRAF DAYRĪ

  Giri L. Tikku

  Persian poet of Kashmir (1682-1775-6).