ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ŠOŠTARĪ (referred to also as BU’L-ʿALĀʾ, in both forms either with or without the nesba), early Persian poet and…

BAKHSHIEV MISHI (Baxşijəv Mişi in the Judeo-Tat Roman alphabet used in 1929-38; 1910, Derbent-1972, Makhach-Qaḷʿa), Judeo-Tat author. A shoemaker’s apprentice…

ABŪ ṬĀHER ḴᵛĀJA B. MAWLĀNĀ [MOLLĀ] MĪR ABŪ SAʿĪD ḴᵛĀJA SAMARQANDĪ, MOLLĀ (first half of the 13th/19th century), author of…

ʿABDĪ BOḴĀRĀʾĪ, ʿABDALLĀH ḴᵛĀJA, (d. 1340/1921-22), Tajik taḏkeranevīs (biographer) and poet. He was born in Bokhara to the family of…

ʿABD-AL-KARĪM B. MĪR ESMĀʿĪL BOḴĀRĪ, MĪR[ZĀ] (d. after 1246/1830-31), Bokharan traveler and memorialist. Data regarding him are found in his…

BUKHARA vii. Bukharan Jews “Bukharan Jews” is the common appellation for the Jews of Central Asia whose native language is…

FEṬRAT ZARDŪZ SAMARQANDĪ, SAYYED (also, mistakenly, Saʿīd; Miklukho-Maklaĭ, No. 2825) KAMĀL (b. about 1070/1660 in the Zardūzān quarter of Samarkand;…

FAŻLĪ NAMANGĀNĪ, ʿABD-AL-KARĪM (d. after 1237/1822), Central Asian bilingual poet (Persian and Chaghatay), taḏkera compiler, and historian. Fażlī spent his…

BOḴĀRĀ-YE ŠARĪF “Boḵārā the noble,” the first Central Asian newspaper published in Persian. It first appeared on 4 Rabīʿ II…

BERTHELS, EVGENIĭ ÈDUARDOVICH BERTEL’S (b. 13 December Julian calendar = 25 December 1890, St. Petersburg, d. 7 October 1957, Moscow),…