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BOḴĀRĪ, ĀḴŪND MOLLĀ MOḤAMMAD-ŠARĪF b. Moḥammad Ḥosaynī ʿAlawī Ṣeddīqī, also known as Šarīf-e Boḵārī and Mollā Šarīf, the leading Koran exegete and traditionist in Transoxiana in the last half of the 11th/17th century and for a time chief scholar (aʿlam al-ʿolamāʾ) of Bukhara. Moḥammad-Šarīf was particularly noted for his analysis…

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BOḴĀRĪ, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad, called al-Zāhed al-ʿAlāʾ, Hanafite scholar of feqh, legal method­ology, kalām theology, and preacher and moftī in Bukhara (d. 12 Jomādā II 546/26 September 1151). Abū Saʿd Samʿānī, the main source of information about him, states that he did not meet him…

BOḴĀRĪ ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad (also known as ʿAlāʾ-al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār), close associate and primary successor of Bahāʾ-al-Dīn Naqš­band (q.v.), the eponym of the Naqšbandī Sufi order. He was the youngest of three sons of a migrant from Ḵᵛārazm who had made his home in Bukhara. When the father died, ʿAlāʾ-al-Dīn…

BOKĀVOL (Büke’ül), a term used in the Il-khanid period and after for a royal food taster or, later and more commonly, a military commissariat officer. The word is not used in the Secret History of the Mongols, but the officials who it tells us were appointed by Jengīz (Čengīz) Khan…

BOKAYR B. MĀHĀN MARVAZĪ, ABŪ HĀŠEM, a leading ʿAbbasid propagandist (dāʿī). Towards the end of the Omayyad caliphate he was the translator (tarjomān) or secretary (kāteb) to Jonayd b. ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān, the governor of Sind (Ṭabarī, years 105 and 124), and was said to be a Shiʿite (Dīnavarī, ed. Guirgass, pp….

BOḴT-ARDAŠĪR (Mid. Pers. Bōxt-Artaxšīr/Ardašīr), name of a town (rōstāg) that, according to the Kār-nāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pābagān, Ardašīr I founded as an expression of his gratitude to God after he reached the sea during his flight from the court of the last Parthian king, Ardawān. He also ordered Wahrām…

BOḴTĪŠŪʿ, the name of the eponymous ancestor of a Syro-Persian Nestorian family of physicians from Gondēšāpūr, Ḵūzestān, 2nd/8th to 5th/11th centuries, and of several of its members. This article will concentrate on those cultural factors which shaped the family’s intellectual profile before they entered the orbit of ʿAbbasid civilization; it…

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BOLBOL “nightingale” i. The bird. ii. In Persian literature.   i. The Bird The term bolbol is applied to at least three species of the genus Luscinia (fam. Turdidae): L. megarhynchos “nightingale” (with three subspecies), L. luscinia “thrush nightingale” (called bolbol-e ḵāldār “spotted bolbol” by Scott et al., p. 311),…

BOLBOL, MOLLĀ AŠRAF DAYRĪ (1093-­1189/1682-1775-6), Persian poet of Kashmir. He is the author of the Reżā-nāma, the first versified account of the martyrdom of Imam Ḥosayn to appear in Kashmir (Ins. Srinagar Research Library). The Reżā-nāma is part of a ḵamsa, the four other parts of which, namely Arzan te…

BOLOD, CHʿENG-HSIANG (Pers. Pūlād Čīnksāng), the representative of the Great Khan Qubilai at the court of the Il-khans of Iran. Despite the Chinese title cḥʿeng-hsiang (Mathews’ Chinese-English Dictionary, nos. 385, 2562), Bolod was certainly of Mongol stock. He was one of Rašīd-al-Dīn’s main suppliers of infor­mation on early Mongol and…

BOLOḠĀN (Būlūḡān) ḴĀTŪN, the name of three of the royal wives of the Mongol Il-khans in Iran. Of Mongol origin, the word Boloḡān, variously spelled in the Persian sources, means “sable” (see Moḥammad-Mahdī Khan fol. 141v; Doerfer, I, p. 215). In ac­cordance with the custom noted with distaste by William…

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