BŪSTĀN, in early sources referred to as Saʿdī-nāma, a moralistic and anecdotal verse work consisting of some 4,100 maṯnawī couplets…

BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE, eminent British Iranologist, born on the family estate Gloucestershire, 7 February 1862, died near Cambridge, 5 January…

BELL, GERTRUDE Margaret Lowthian, 1868-1926, British traveler, private scholar, archeolo­gist, sometime government servant, and a translator of Ḥāfeẓ, whose concern…