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• BŪŠEHRĪ, ḤĀJĪ MOḤAMMAD

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

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

• BŪSTĀN

  G. Michael Wickens

  in early sources referred to as Saʿdī-nāma, a moralistic and anecdotal verse work consisting of some 4,100 maṯnawī couplets by Shaikh Moṣleḥ-al-Dīn Saʿdī, completed in 1257. 

• BŪSTĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD

  Yuri Bregel

  ʿABD-AL-ʿAẒĪM SĀMĪ, poet and historian of Bukhara (b. ca. 1840, d. after 1914).

• BUSTARD

  Hūšang Aʿlam and Derek A. Scott

  any of a family (Otididae) of game birds of which three species, generally called hūbar(r)a in contemporary Persian, occur in Iran.

• BŪTĪMĀR

  Hūšang Aʿlam

  a semilegendary aquatic bird; in Persian literature its lore that can be traced back at least as far as the time of Jāḥeẓ (d. 255/868).

• BUYIDS

  Tilman Nagel

  (also Bowayhids, Buwaihids, etc.; Pers. Āl-e Būya), dynasty of Daylamite origin ruling over the southern and western part of Iran and over Iraq from the middle of the 4th/10th to the middle of the 5th/11th centuries.

• BŪZĪNA

  Maḥmūd Omīdsālār

  monkeys. Other names: meymūn (common), ʿantar (vulgar), kappī (Mid. Pers. kabīg, from Indian kapi). Two myths of the creation of monkeys exist in the Zoroastrian literature.

• BŪZJĀNĪ, ABU’L-WAFĀʾ

  Cross-reference

  See ABU’L-WAFĀʾ BŪZJĀNĪ.

• BŪZJĀNĪ, DARWĪŠ ʿALĪ

  Heshmat Moayyad

  (d. after 1522), a Sufi scholar of Khorasan attached to Aḥmad-e Jām.

• BYRON, ROBERT

  Robert Irwin

  (1905-1941), British travel writer and amateur historian of architecture.