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• BĀḎḠĪS

  C. E. Bosworth, D. Balland

  also BĀDḠĪS, region in eastern Khorasan, between Herat and the middle course of the Harīrūd in the south, and Marv al-Rūḏ and the headwaters of the Morḡāb in the north. i. General and the early period.  ii. The modern province.

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• BĀDHĀ ḴABAR AZ TAḠYIR-e FAṢL MIDĀDAND

  Soheila Saremi

  (The winds presaged the changing of season), a novel by the eminent fiction writer and literary critic, Jamal Mirsadeqi. Set in the 1960s in Tehran and revolves around the turbulent life of Ḥamid, the novel’s narrator, and his cast of friends and neighbors of poverty-stricken families.

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• BADĪʿ (1)

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  rhetorical embellishment. During the early Islamic period the word developed into a technical term through its use in discussions about Arabic poetry and ornate prose.

• BADĪʿ (2)

  D. M. MacEoin

  designation of the calendar system of Babism and Bahaism, originally introduced by the Bāb.

• BADĪʿ BALḴĪ

  Z. Safa

  Persian poet of the 10th century.

• BADĪʿ KĀTEB JOVAYNĪ, MOḤAMMAD

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  See KĀTEB JOVAYNĪ.

• BADĪʿ, ĀQĀ BOZORG

  M. Momen

  (d. 1869), a young Bahai martyr who has gained a certain distinction in Bahai lore.

• BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN

  M. E. Subtelny

  (d. ca. 1514), Timurid prince, who rebelled against his father,  Sultan Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (r. Herat 1469-1506).

• BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN HAMADĀNĪ

  F. Malti-Douglas

  (968-1008), Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre. His maqāmāt are a set of adventures narrated in rhymed prose and poetry, revolving around a rogue hero and a narrator.

• BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN MĪRZĀ

  R. D. McChesney

  by most accounts the last of the Chaghatay/Timurid rulers of Badaḵšān (d. ca. 1603).