ʿARAB ii. Arab Conquest of Iran During the first two centuries of the Muslim era (7th-8th centuries A.D.) the Sasanian…

BAHMAN-ARDAŠĪR (or Forāt Maysān), town and subdistrict in Maysān in lower Iraq. The town of Forāt is known from the…

BAHMAN JĀDŪYA (or Jāḏōē), Sasanian general engaged in the defense of the Sawād of ʿErāq during the Muslim conquest in…

al-BADʾ waʾl-TAʾRĪḴ (The book of creation and history), an encyclopedic compilation of religious, historical, and philosophical knowledge written in Arabic…

ANBĀR (Pers. term meaning granary), a town on the left bank of the Euphrates five km north-west of Fallūǰa and…