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BALUCHISTAN iiia. BALUCHI POETRY The clearest way to describe Baluchi poetry is by dividing it into 4 periods: (1) classical, from ca. 1550-1700; (2) post-classical, from 1700-1800; (3) 19th century to early 20th century; (4) modern, after ca. 1930. Historical development and genres. Up to the modern period, all Baluchi…

BALUCHISTAN iv. Music of Baluchistan Melodies in the music of Baluchistan are usually connected with particular ceremonies (marāsem), usually religious rites, festivals, or holidays. The principal religious rites are exorcism (gwātī), ecstasy (māled-e pīr-e pataṛ), and mourning (majāles-e tarḥīm); the most important festivals and holidays are weddings, childbirth, circumcision, date…

BALUCHISTAN v. Baluch Carpets, Rugs, and Other Products A distinct group of carpets, woven by Baluch (بلوچ) tribes in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan and the Sīstān area, is known as Baluch carpets (Edwards, p. 185). These carpets were not, as is frequently erroneously assumed, made in Makrān, where…

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BALŪṬ (Middle Persian balūt and Arabic ballūṭ from Aram. bāloṭ/belūṭā; see Mashkour, p. 82), common designation in New Persian both for acorn and oak, Quercus L. Geobotany. Botanists-pharmacologists of the Islamic era (in Persia and in Arab lands), like their Greek predecessors Dioscorides and Galen, display scant, if any, information…

BALYĀNI, AMIN-AL-DIN, famous mystic of Kazerun (d. 11 Ḏo’l-Qaʿda 745/16 March 1345). Amin-al-Din Moḥammad b. ʿAli b. Masʿud was a famous Sufi who lived at the time of the Inju dynasty in Fars. The principle source for his life is Meftāḥ al-hedāyat va meṣbāḥ al-ʿenāyat, written in 1346 by his…

BALYSA- (Khotan Saka), bārza- (Tumšuq Saka), a word adapted to Buddhist use for the transcendental Buddha. In pronunciation, b was bilabial v and ys was voiced sibilant z, for which Tumšuq Saka had a new sign za. The Tumšuq Saka, older bārsa- and later bārza-, has kept the older rz,…

BĀLYŪZĪ, ḤASAN MOWAQQAR (b. Shiraz, 1908; d. London, 12 February 1980), Bahai author and administrator, the son of ʿAlī-Moḥammad Khan Mowaqqar-al-Dawla and member of the Afnān family. He was educated at the American University, Beirut, and the London School of Economics. He founded with Mojtabā Mīnovī the Persian service of…

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BALʿAMĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL MOḤAMMAD B. ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH B. MOḤAMMAD BALʿAMĪ TAMĪMĪ, vizier to the Samanid amir Naṣr b. Aḥmad, father of the vizier and historian Abū ʿAlī Moḥammad b. Moḥammad Baḷʿamī (see amīrak baḷʿamī) and thus member of a distinguished family in the service of the rulers of Transoxania and Khorasan. The…

BAM (also written bām) “bass,” the lowest-pitched string in music. The seventeenth-century dictionary Borhān-e qāṭeʿ states s.v. bām that “people also say tār-e bām (the low string), which is the thick string set in musical instruments.” The New Persian word bam has been borrowed in Arabic as bamm and in…

BAM (in Arabic, Bamm), a town in southeastern Iran, located on the southwestern rim of the Dašt-e Lūt basin at an altitude of 1,100 m. i. History and modern town. ii. Ruins of the old town.   i. History and Modern Town Bam is a large oasis that owes its…

BAM EARTHQUAKE of December 26, 2003. A moderate-magnitude (Mw 6.6) earthquake struck the city of Bam and its surroundings in southeast Iran (29.10˚N-58.35˚E) at 05:26 AM local time (01:56 GMT) on Friday 26 December 2003/5 Dey 1382 (FIGURE 1). The night before the main shock (25 December), two strong foreshocks…

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BĀMDĀD, a weekly Persian newspaper published in Tehran from Šawwāl, 1325/November, 1907, by Anjoman-e Etteḥādīya-ye Markazī-e Aṣnāf (Council of the central league of guilds). It was edited by Ḡolām-ʿAlī Khan Qājār Qezel Ayāḡ (later editor of the newspaper Ṣerāṭ al-ṣanāyeʿ); however, its manager and principal columnist was the noted reformist,…