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• Borumand - Daramads of šur

  music sample

• BORŪMAND, NŪR-ʿALĪ

  Bruno Nettl

  (1905-1977), one of the foremost authorities on the performance and history of Persian classical music in the 20th century.

• BORZMEHR

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (Pahlavi, lit. “deep affection”) one of the priests (mōbed) and scribes who served Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79).

• BORZŪ-NĀMA (article 1)

  William L. Hanaway, Jr.

  an epic poem of ca. 65,000 lines recounting the exploits and adventures of the legendary hero Borzū, son of Sohrāb.

• BORZU-NĀMA (article 2)

  Gabrielle van den Berg

  an epic poem named after its main hero, Borzu, son of Sohrāb and grandson of Rostam. The Borzu-nāma belongs to the cycle of epics dealing with the dynasty of the princes of Sistān.

• BORZŪYA

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (also transcribed Burzōē), a physician of the time of Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79) and responsible for a translation of the Pañcatantra from Sanskrit to Pahlavi, the Persian translation of which is known as the Kalīla wa Demna.

• BOSḤĀQ AṬʿEMA

  Heshmat Moayyad

  (d. 1420s), FAḴR-AL-DĪN ḤALLĀJ ŠĪRĀZĪ, satirical poet who used Persian culinary vocabulary and imagery and kitchen terminology to create a novel style of poetry.

• BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

  Hamid Algar

  The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina came to assimilate virtually all the cultural habits and interests of the Ottoman Turks; for the learned elite, this included an acquaintance with Persian language and literature.

• BOŠRŪʾĪ, Mollā Moḥammad-Ḥosayn

  Denis M. MacEoin

  Shaikhi ʿālem who became the first convert to Babism, provincial Babi leader in Khorasan, and organizer of Babi resistance in Māzandarān (1814-49).

• BOST

  Klaus Fischer, Xavier de Planhol

  archeological site and town located near the confluence of the Helmand and Arḡandāb rivers in southwest Afghanistan.