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BOQʿA
Hamid Algar
the mausoleum of a sacred or revered personage, sometimes taken to include additional structures adjoining the tomb or the open space surrounding it.
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BORAGE
cross-reference
See GĀV-ZABĀN.
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BŌRĀN
Marie Louise Chaumont
(Pers. Pōrān, Pūrān), Sasanian queen ca. 630-31, daughter of Ḵosrow II (r. 590, 591-628). There are extant coins of Bōrān dated from the first, second, and third years of her reign.
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BORĀQ (1)
Bertold Spuler
ruler of the Chaghatay khanate in Transoxiana (1266-71), a great-grandson of Jengiz Khan and a son of Yesün-Toʾa.
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BORĀQ (2)
Cross-Reference
See MEʿRĀJ.
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BORĀZJĀN
ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
town and county (šahrestān) in Bushehr Province in southern Iran. The present town came into being in the late 12th/18th century.
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BORHĀN BALḴĪ
Zabihollah Safa
BORHĀN-AL-DĪN MOẒAFFAR b. Šams b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamīd-al-Dīn, a poet of the 14th century from Balḵ. He was descended from Ebrāhīm b. Adham, the renowned Iranian Sufi of the 2nd/8th century.
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BORHĀN NAFĪS
Zabihollah Safa
BORHĀN-AL-DĪN NAFĪS b. ʿEważ b. Ḥakīm Kermānī, a physician of great renown in the 15th century.
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BORHĀN, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN
cross-reference
See BORHĀN-E QĀṬEʿ.
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BORHĀN-AL-DĪN MOḤAQQEQ TERMEḎĪ
cross-reference
See MOḤAQQEQ TERMEḎĪ.