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Baha M. Sibai

Baha M. Sibai, also known as Baha Sibai, is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and researcher at UTHealth Houston known for work on preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.

Baha Men

Baha Men, Bahamian Junkanoo-pop band from New Providence formed in 1977 (originally High Voltage), best known for the Grammy-winning 2000 hit "Who Let the Dogs Out", a cover of Anslem Douglas's "Doggie" released on S-Curve, plus later albums and touring.

Baha' al-Din al-'Amili

Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (بهاء الدين العاملي), known in Iran as Shaykh Baha'i, was a Twelver Shi'i scholar, jurist, mathematician, and poet of Safavid Iran who died in 1621.

Baha' al-Din Naqshband

Baha' al-Din Naqshband (بهاءالدین نقشبند) was a Sufi master of Bukhara who lived from 1318 to 1389 and became the eponym of the Naqshbandi order.

Baha' al-Din Qaraqush

Baha' al-Din Qaraqush (بهاء الدين قراقوش) was a eunuch military commander who served Saladin, built the Citadel of Cairo, governed Acre, and died in 1201.

Baha'i community of Iran

The Baha'i community of Iran (بهائیان ایران) is the religious community that formed in Iran in the 1860s and 1870s around Baha'ullah, growing from the Babi movement after the Bab's execution in 1850.

Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee

Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee: UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2008, criteria iii and vi) of 26 buildings and sites in Acre and Haifa, Israel, centered on the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh and the Shrine of the Báb.

Bahá'í views of marriage

In Bahá'í teaching, marriage is a spiritual bond requiring the couple's consent, that of all living natural parents, and a simple ceremony with no officiant.

Bahaa Sultan

Bahaa Sultan (بهاء سلطان), born Bahaa Fathi Abdullah in 1972, is an Egyptian pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1990s and became one of Egypt's best-known 2000s stars.

Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر), sometimes transliterated Bahaa Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and translator who won the first Arabic Booker in 2008 for Sunset Oasis, dying in 2022 at 87.

Bahaaeldin Aly

Bahaaeldin Aly (born 2002) is an Egyptian recurve archer, 2018 African Youth Games cadet gold medalist, holder of the African recurve team record (1921), 2024 Arab indoor champion, and 2026 African Championships silver medalist.

Bahadur Nizam Shah

Bahadur Nizam Shah (बहादुर निज़ाम शाह) was a child sultan of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Ahmadnagar, reigned 1596 to 1600, and was succeeded after the Mughal capture of Ahmadnagar.

Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول)

Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول), born Muhammad Mu'azzam, also Shah Alam I, seventh Mughal emperor (r. 1707–1712). Eldest son of Aurangzeb, took the throne at 63 by defeating Azam Shah at Jajau; settled with Rajputs and Marathas, fought Banda Bahadur, died at Lahore 1712.

Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

Bahadur Shah of Gujarat (بہادر شاہ) was sultan of Gujarat from 1526 to 1537, the last important ruler of the independent sultanate, who conquered Malwa in 1531.

Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر)

Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر), last Mughal emperor (r. 1837–1857), Urdu ghazal poet, tried for treason in 1858, exiled to Rangoon, died 1862; tomb rediscovered 1991 in Yangon.

Bahadurgarh

Bahadurgarh (बहादुरगढ़), the Gateway of Haryana, is a city in Jhajjar district on the Delhi border, founded in 1754 and known for its footwear cluster of about 2,500 units making roughly 60% of India's non-leather footwear.

Bahai

Bahai (巴海) was a Qing dynasty general who served the Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors as commander of the Ningguta frontier and organized the tribal resettlement known as the New Manchus.

Bahai community

The Bahai community (بهاییان) is the body of followers of Baha' Allah, a religion founded in 1863 in Ottoman Baghdad that grew in Iran out of the Babi movement.

Bahâî Mehmed Efendi

Bahâî Mehmed Efendi (died 1654) was an Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and composer who served twice as şeyhülislam, the chief mufti of the Ottoman state.

Bahal Mound

Bahal Mound (Pawar's Gadhi), Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India; ASI-protected ancient habitation mound on the Girna river excavated by M.N. Deshpande, occupied from the Chalcolithic period (750-1000 BC) to the 18th century.

Bahama Basin

Bahama Basin: undersea basin of the North Atlantic at 29°15'N, 74°15'W, east of Bahama Ridge, named 1992 (SCUFN, proposer Troy L. Holcombe); part of the Blake-Bahama Basin deep beside the Bahama carbonate banks.

Bahama Islands

Bahama Islands: low-lying archipelago of 700+ limestone islands and cays southeast of Florida, also called the Lucayas, sitting on the Great and Little Bahama Banks carbonate platforms; highest point Mount Alvernia, 63 m, on Cat Island; independent Commonwealth country since 1973.

Bahamas (musician)

Bahamas is the indie folk-rock project of Toronto-born, Finnish-descent singer-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, formerly a sideman for Feist; Juno-winning albums include Bahamas Is Afie, Earthtones, Sad Hunk, and Bootcut.

Bahamian cuisine

Bahamian cuisine is the cooking tradition of The Bahamas, centered on queen conch and seafood, with dishes like conch salad, cracked conch, peas and rice, and chicken souse.

Bahamian dollar

The Bahamian dollar is the currency of The Bahamas, issued by the Central Bank of The Bahamas and fixed at one-to-one parity with the US dollar since 1973.

Bahamian majority rule

Bahamian majority rule was the transfer of power from a white mercantile minority to the Black majority, won in the general election of 10 January 1967.

Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons)

Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, is the Dungeons & Dragons dragon god of good, king of metallic dragons and eternal adversary of Tiamat. Introduced 1975 in Greyhawk, named in the 1977 Monster Manual; lawful good, domains Life and War, Mount Celestia.

Bahamut (بهموت)

Bahamut (بهموت), from Hebrew Behemoth, is the colossal fish of medieval Arabic cosmography bearing the earth, so vast the seas would be a mustard seed in its nostril.

Bahar (TV series)

Turkish medical comedy-drama (Show TV, MF Yapım), adaptation of Korean series Doctor Cha. Aired 13 February 2024 to 28 December 2025; 3 seasons, 64 episodes starring Demet Evgâr, Buğra Gülsoy, Mehmet Yılmaz Ak.

Bahar Biller

Bahar Biller is an industrial engineer and operations researcher specializing in stochastic simulation for manufacturing and supply chains; she won a 2006 PECASE award at Carnegie Mellon and works at SAS Institute.