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Bahrām V Gōr Bahrām V Gōr, son and successor of Yazdegerd I, reigned from 420 to 438. His mother was said to have been Šōšanduxt, a daughter of the Jewish exilarch (Markwart, Provincial Capitals, par. 74). As a youth he was brought up at the court of the Lakhmid kings…

Bahrām V Gōr in Persian Legend and Literature The growth of legends around prominent figures is familiar in Persian literature, and the case of Bahrām V is an excellent example of this. The relatively colorless and straightforward accounts by the early historians (Ṭabarī, Dīnavarī, Baḷʿamī, Ebn Balḵī), which emphasize Bahrām’s…

Bahrām VI Čōbīn Bahrām VI Čōbīn, chief commander under the Sasanian Hormozd IV and king of Iran in 590-91, was a son of Bahrāmgošnasp (FIGURE 1), of the family of Mehrān, one of the seven great houses of the Sasanian period (Justi, Namenbuch, p. 363 no. 23). First mentioned in…

Bahrām Yašt title Bahrām Yašt genre/topic Yašt language   performer Mo’bed Parviz Māli instrument Voice composer   author/poet   first line of poem   recorded by Mohammad Rezā Darviši place of recording Yazd date of recording   duration 5:35 source Epics in Iranian Folk Music, 2. Mahoor Institute of Culture…

BAHRĀM SON OF GŌDARZ, a hero in the reigns of Kay Kāōs and Kay Ḵosrow, renowned for his valiant service in all the wars (Šāh-nāma, Moscow, II-IV). During Sīāvoš’s war with Afrāsīāb (q.v.), Bahrām and Zanga-ye Šavarān become Sīāvoš’s counselors after Rostam is sent back from the battlefield. After Sīāvoš’s…

BAHRĀMĪ SARAḴSĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ, Persian poet and leading literary scholar of the early 5th/11th century. He was one of the many poets who gained access to the court at Ḡazna in the reigns of Sultan Maḥmūd b. Sübüktegin (388/998-421/1030) and his sons Moḥammad and Masʿūd and composed odes (qaṣīdas) in…

BAHRĀMĪ, FARAJ-ALLĀH, DABĪR AʿẒAM (1878/79?-1951), Reżā Shah’s personal secretary and an early supporter who played a key role in Reżā Shah’s control of absolute power. A well educated son of a bureaucrat, he held the position of the chef de cabinet of the Ministry of War during the fourth Majles…

BAHRĀMŠĀH B. MASʿŪD III B. EBRĀHĪM, ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR, Ghaznavid sultan in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern India with the favored honorific title (among many) of Yamīn-al-Dawla wa Amīn-al-Mella, reigned 511-?552/1117-?1157. Bahrāmšāh was one of Masʿūd III’s several sons, though probably not by the latter’s wife Jawhar Ḵātūn, daughter of Malekšāh, the Mahd-e…

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BAḤRĀNĪ, AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. YŪSOF B. ṢĀLEḤ, described as the leading representative in his generation of Imami Shiʿite scholarship in Bahrain. His family descended from the coastal al-Ḵaṭṭ, but he himself was born and brought up in the village of Maqāba, near the northwestern corner of Bahrain (cf. J….

BAḤRĀNĪ, HĀŠEM B. SOLAYMĀN B. ESMĀʿĪL B. ʿABD-AL-JAWĀD B. ʿALĪ B. SOLAYMĀN B. NĀṢER ḤOSAYNĪ KATKĀNĪ TŪBLĪ, Imami scholar and author. He was a sayyed descended from the Šarīf Mortażā and Imam Mūsā al-Kāẓem and came from the village of Katkān in Tūblī on the main island of Bahrain. He…

BAḤRĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN (also KAMĀL-AL-DĪN) ʿALĪ B. SOLAYMĀN SETRAWĪ, Imami scholar and philosopher inclining to mysticism of the first half of the 7th/13th century. Ḥaydar Āmolī counts him among the scholars who ranked the Sufi gnosis above all other knowledge (Jāmeʿ al-abrār wa-manbaʿ al-asrār, ed H. Corbin and O. Yaḥyā, Tehran…

BAḤRĀNĪ, YŪSOF B. AḤMAD B. EBRĀHĪM DERĀZĪ, Imami author and jurisprudent. He was born in 1107/1695-96 to a merchant family in the Baḥrānī village of Māḥūz. In the wake of Bahrain’s occupation by the imam of ʿOman in 1129/1717, the family fled to the mainland, settling in Qatif (Katif). After…

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