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• BURIAL v. In Bahai Communities

  Vahid Rafati

  Bahai laws on burial are limited to a few basic principles that are binding on all Bahai communities around the world.

• BURNES, ALEXANDER

  Malcolm E. Yapp

  (1805-41), author of Travels into Bukhara (published in 1834), an account of his exploratory mission to Afghani­stan, Turkestan, and Iran.

• BURNOUF, EUGÈNE

  Clarisse Herrenschmidt

  (1801-52), virtually the founder of Iranian linguistics, as well as of the study of the history of Buddhism.

• BURUSHASKI

  Hermann Berger

  language spoken in Hunza-Karakorum, North Pakistan, containing some Iranian loanwords of various origins.

• BURZĒNMIHR

  cross-reference

  See ĀDUR BURZĒNMIHR.

• BŪSALĪK

  Hormoz Farhat

  one of the maqāms of the Perso-Arabian musical system mentioned in medieval treatises on music.

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• BŪŠĀSP

  Allan V. Williams

  demon of slothfulness and procrastination in Zoroastrianism.

• BUSCARELLO DE GHIZOLFI

  Jean Richard

  Genoese merchant and diplomat who served the il-khan Arḡūn (r. 1284-91). Buscarello belonged to a great family of Genoa that played an important role in the maritime trade of the city.  

• BŪŠEHR

  Xavier de Planhol, Moḥammad-Taqī Masʿūdīya

  (Ar. Būšahr, European spellings Bushire, Busheer, Bouchir), port city in southern Iran on the Persian Gulf. i. The city. ii. Music of Būšehr. 

• BŪŠEHRĪ, ḤĀJĪ MOḤAMMAD

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  MOʿĪN-AL-TOJJĀR (1859-1933), a merchant active in the Constitutional Revolution.