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BADR ČĀČĪ, a Persian poet of the 8th/14th century, born in the town or district of Čāč (also written Šāš) in Transoxiana, which had been a frontier fortress and was destroyed before the Mongol invasion in the wars of the Ḵᵛārazmšāh Sultan Moḥammad (596/1200-617/1220); ruins still exist at its site…

BADR JĀJARMĪ, MALEK-AL-ŠOʿARĀʾ BADR-AL-DĪN B. ʿOMAR, a 7th/13th-century poet who enjoyed renown in his own time. Born in Jājarm, Khorasan, he received his education in adab in that province and later moved to Isfahan where he entered the service of Ḵᵛāja Bahāʾ-al-Dīn b. Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Jovaynī, the governor of Isfahan…

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BADR-AL-DĪN EBRĀHĪM, author of the Persian dictionary Farhang-e zafāngūyā wa jahānpūyā (The eloquent and world-seeking dictionary) composed in India in the late 8th/14th or early 9th/15th century. There is no information about his life and other works. The work is divided into seven parts (baḵš), each of which is a…

BADR-AL-DĪN B. SHAIKH EBRĀHĪM SERHENDĪ, a Sufi author, translator, and disciple of the celebrated Aḥmad Serhendī. He was probably born in or around 1002/1593-94 (see Maḥbūb Elāhī, in the preface to Ḥażarāt al-qods, pp. 9-10); for seventeen years he was associated with Aḥmad Serhendī (ibid., p. 157), who addressed to…

BADR-AL-DĪN TABRĪZĪ, architect and savant active in Konya in Anatolia during the third quarter of the thirteenth century. He is described by Aflākī (I, p. 389) as the architect (meʿmār) of the tomb of the great mystic poet Jalāl-al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 1273). He came to Anatolia probably as one of…

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BADRĪ KAŠMĪRĪ, BADR-AL-DĪN ʿABD-AL-SALĀM B. EBRĀHĪM ḤOSAYNĪ, a Persian poet in India in the second half of the 10th/16th century. He was an adherent of the Naqšbandī order and a disciple of one of its masters, Ḵᵛāja Moḥammad Eslām, at whose instance he composed most of his poems. In the…

BĀDRŪDI, one of the local dialects of the Kāšān region, spoken in Bādrūd, a dehestān (rural district) of Naṭanz. Locally the dialect is called ozun dei “village language.” The material for Bādrūdi was collected in Bād, the center of the dehestān, in August of 1969. Other villages in Bādrūd which…

BĀDŪSPĀN or BĀDŪSBĀN, FĀDŪSBĀN, mountainous district of northern Iran on the Caspian side of the Alborz mountains, in Ṭabarestān (Māzandarān), known to the medieval geographers. It lay one day’s march to the south of Sārīya (Sārī), had no towns or Friday mosques, but numerous villages. The chief villages were Manṣūra…

BADUSPANIDS, a dynasty ruling Rūyān and Rostamdār from the late 5th/11th to the 10th/16th century with the title of ostandārs and later of kings. It is named after Bādūspān (Pādūspān), son of Gīl Gīlān Gawbāra, who according to legend came to rule Rūyān when his brother Dābūya succeeded Gawbāra on…

al-BADʾ waʾl-TAʾRĪḴ (The book of creation and history), an encyclopedic compilation of religious, historical, and philosophical knowledge written in Arabic by Abū Naṣr Moṭahhar b. al-Moṭahhar (or Ṭāher) Maqdesī in 355/966 at Bost in Sīstān for a Samanid prince. It survives in three Istanbul manuscripts. “Dâmâd Ebrahim 918” was copied…