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BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ, SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN BAHĀʾĪ, also known as Shaikh Bahāʾī, Imami scholar and author born near Baalbek on 27 Ḏu’l-ḥejja 953/18 February 1547 (other dates are also given). He moved with the rest of his family to Isfahan and from there to Qazvīn after the execution in 966/1558…

BAHĀʾ-ALLĀH MĪRZĀ ḤOSAYN-ʿALĪ NŪRĪ (1233-1309/1817-92). Iranian notable and founder of the Bahai religion or Bahaism. He was born 2 Moḥarram 1233/12 November 1817 in Tehran into the household of a notable family from Māzandarān. His father, Mīrzā ʿAbbās Nūrī (d. 1839), known as Mīrzā Bozorg, served the court of Fatḥ-ʿAlī…

BAHĀʾITABRIZI, AḤMAD (b. Tabriz, 1874, d. Istanbul, 1 June 1925), Persian calligrapher and poet. He began studying calligraphy in his hometown, working in nastaʿliq, šekasta and nasḵ styles. Born into a large family, he went to Tbilisi to earn a living but returned to Tabriz after nine months. He went…

BAHĀʾĪYA ḴĀNOM (b. 1262/1846, Tehran), eldest daughter of Bahāʾ-Allāh and considered by Bahais as the “outstanding heroine of the Bahai Dispensation” (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, Wilmette, 1965, p. 108). She was named Fāṭema but is better known by her titles of Bahāʾīya Ḵānom, Bahīya Ḵānom and Ḥażrat-e Waraqa-ye ʿOlyā (usually…

BAHDĪNĀN (Kurdish Bādīnān), name of a Kurdish region, river, dialect group, and amirate. The region comprises roughly the largely mountainous northern qażās of Mowṣel lewā of Iraq (according to the pre-1973 administrative division) including ʿAmādīya, ʿAqra, Dahōk, Zāḵū, Zībār (divided between Arbīl and Mowṣel lewās in 1944), and Šayḵān. The…

BAḤĪRĪ, a major Shafiʿite family of Nishapur in the eleventh century. The family’s eponym is Baḥīr b. Nūḥ b. Ḥayyān b. Moḵtār about whom nothing concrete is known. The names are recorded of several family members who lived in the early tenth century, but Abū ʿAmr Moḥammad b. Aḥmad b….

BAHMAN, the New Persian name of the Avestan Vohu Manah (Good Thought) and Pahlavi Wahman. i. In the Avesta. ii. In the Pahlavi texts.   i. In the Avesta Vohu Manah (Good Thought) is one of the divine beings to whom the name Aməša Spenta is given in the post-Gathic…

BAHMAN son of ESFANDĪĀR, a Kayanian king of Iran in the national epic. This king does not appear in the Avesta but is mentioned as one of the Kayanian kings in the Dēnkard (ed. Sanjana, VII, p. 6.4), Bundahišn (36.9), and Bahman yašt (3.20-29). Various Pahlavi, Arabic, and Persian sources…

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BAHMAN JĀDŪYA (or Jāḏōē), Sasanian general engaged in the defense of the Sawād of ʿErāq during the Muslim conquest in the 630s. He belonged to the Median or Pahlavi faction led by Rostam at Madāʾen and had a reputation for being anti-Arab. Because of his bushy eyebrows he was called…

BAHMAN MĪRZĀ (fl. 1225/1810-1301/1883-84), the fourth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā and brother of Moḥammad Shah (r. 1250-64/1834-48). After Moḥammad Mīrzā succeeded Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, he appointed Bahman Mīrzā (at the time governor of Ardabīl) governor of Tehran (19 Šaʿbān 1250/21 December 1834). Later Bahman Mīrzā became the governor of Hamadān and, when…

BAHMAN MĪRZĀ, BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, the thirty-seventh son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, born 26 Šawwāl 1226/13 November 1811 of Golbadan Bājī, originally a (Georgian?) slave girl of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah’s mother Mahd-e ʿOlyā (Aḥmad Mīrzā ʿAżod-al-Dawla, Tārīḵ-eʿażodī, ed. ʿA. Navāʾī, Tehran, 1355 Š./1976, p. 22). Bahman Mīrzā’s mother came to prominence after Mahd-e ʿOlyā’s…

BAHMAN YAŠT, Middle Persian apocalyptical text preserved in a Middle Persian version in Pahlavi script, a Pāzand (i.e., Middle Persian in Avestan script) transliteration containing supplementary material, and a garbled New Persian translation made in 1496 (see West, Sacred Books of the East, Oxford, 1880, V, pp. lvi-lviii; not 1497…

BAHMAN-ARDAŠĪR (or Forāt Maysān), town and subdistrict in Maysān in lower Iraq. The town of Forāt is known from the first century A.D. as a fortified terminus for caravan trade on the left bank of the lower Tigris, eleven or twelve miles downstream from Charax. Formerly identified with the town…