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Baharistan-i-Shahi
Baharistan-i-Shahi is an anonymous Persian manuscript chronicle of Kashmir, completed in 1614 and perhaps by Muhammad Ali Kashmiri, recounting the Shah Mir and Chak sultans up to Akbar's 1587 annexation.
Bahauddin Zakariya
Bahauddin Zakariya (بہاؤ الدین زکریا) was a thirteenth-century Sufi shaikh of Multan who founded the Suhrawardi order in the Indian subcontinent and served the Delhi Sultanate.
Bahawalpur Zoo
Bahawalpur Zoo (Sher Bagh), a 25-acre zoo in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, founded 1942 by Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi; fourth largest in Pakistan, known for lion breeding, under a Rs 3,479.820 million revamp.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is an independent universalist religion founded in 19th-century Iran by Baháʼu'lláh, teaching the unity of all religions; it has 5 to 8 million adherents.
Baháʼu'lláh (بهاءالله)
Baháʼu'lláh, born Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, was an Iranian religious leader who announced in 1863 that he was the Bāb's promised messianic figure and founded the Baháʼí Faith.
Bahdi-Lim
Bahdi-Lim (Bahdī-Lim) was prefect of the palace of Mari, administering the city for King Zimri-Lim around 1775–1761 BCE; his 80 letters were published in 1954.
Bahia Tailors' Conspiracy
The Bahia Tailors' Conspiracy (Conjuração dos Alfaiates), also called Revolta dos Búzios, was a 1798 movement in Salvador, Brazil, demanding a republic and the abolition of slavery; four leaders were executed in 1799.
Bahian conspiracy of the tailors
The Bahian conspiracy of the tailors (Conjuração Baiana), also called the Revolt of the Búzios, was a republican plot in Salvador, Brazil, made public in 1798.
Bahinabai
Bahinabai (बहिणाबाई) was a Marathi poet-saint of the Varkari sampradaya and disciple of Tukaram, remembered for her devotional abhangs to Vitthal and her rare verse autobiography.
Bahinda dynasty
The Bahinda dynasty, also called the Hinda dynasty, is the royal lineage said to descend from Ruhinda that ruled the Kingdom of Karagwe in northwestern Tanzania.
Bahir (ספר הבהיר)
The Bahir (Sefer ha-Bahir, "Book of Brightness") is an anonymous kabbalistic text regarded as the first work of classical Kabbalah, first attested in thirteenth-century Gerona.
Bāhiya Dārucīriya
Bāhiya Dārucīriya (बाहिय दारुचीरिय), "Bāhiya of the Bark Garment," was a Buddhist disciple the Buddha named foremost in swift attainment of understanding, awakened by a brief teaching.
Bahlul Lodi
Bahlul Lodi (بہلول لودھی), also written Buhlul, was an Afghan chief who founded the Lodi dynasty and reigned as first sultan of Delhi from 1451 to 1489.
Bahlul Lodi's Afghan land-grant policy
Bahlul Lodi's Afghan land-grant policy (بہلول لودھی کی افغانی تقسیم) settled Afghan tribesmen from Roh on jagirs in India, sharing conquered land as brothers under Sultan Bahlul Lodi of Delhi.
Bahmani coinage
Bahmani coinage (بہمنی سکہ) is the gold, silver, and copper money struck by the Bahmani sultans of the Deccan from 1347 until the early sixteenth century.
Bahmani conquest of Goa
The Bahmani conquest of Goa was the seizure of the port of Goa and the Konkan coast from Vijayanagara by the Bahmani Sultanate's minister Mahmud Gawan, around 1470.
Bahmani Kingdom
The Bahmani Kingdom, also known as the Bahmani Sultanate, was the first independent Muslim kingdom of South India. It was founded in 1347 in the Deccan.
Bahmani–Vijayanagara wars
The Bahmani–Vijayanagara wars (बहमनी-विजयनगर युद्ध) were a series of wars between the Bahmani Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire, fought chiefly over the Raichur doab from 1367 to 1520.
Bahr ibn Nasr al-Khawlani
Bahr ibn Nasr al-Khawlani (بحر بن نصر الخولاني) was an Egyptian hadith transmitter and jurist, a student of al-Shafi'i, who died in Egypt in 880.
Bahr Negus
The Bahr Negash (ባሕር ንጉሥ), meaning "ruler of the sea," was the title of the governor of Medri Bahri, in present-day Eritrea, from the mid-15th century.
Bahr Negus Yeshaq
Bahr Negus Yeshaq (Ge'ez: ይስሐቅ, Yeshaq) governed Ethiopia's Red Sea coastal provinces, called Medri Bahri, from Debarwa in the mid-sixteenth century, serving Emperor Galawdéwos before rebelling with Ottoman support.
Bahrain Bourse
Bahrain Bourse is Bahrain's government-owned securities exchange, established in 2010 to replace the Bahrain Stock Exchange, trading equities, bonds, sukuk, and Treasury bills through nine licensed members.
Bahrain in the 2026 Iran war
Bahrain in the 2026 Iran war: the Gulf island kingdom, host of the US Fifth Fleet, as a front-line state after Iran's February 28, 2026 strikes on Naval Support Activity Bahrain, covering attacks, economic damage, crackdowns, and diplomacy.
Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, known as Mumtalakat, is Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, established by royal decree in 2006 to own and develop the government's non-oil assets.
Bahraini dinar (دينار بحريني)
The Bahraini dinar (دينار بحريني) is the currency of Bahrain, issued by the Central Bank of Bahrain and pegged to the US dollar at 0.376 dinars per dollar.
Bahram al-Armani
Bahram al-Armani (بهرام الأرمني) was a Christian Armenian general and wazir of Fatimid Egypt under Caliph al-Hafiz from 1135 to 1137, the only Armenian Fatimid vizier who remained Christian.
Bahram al-Da'i
Bahram al-Da'i (بهرام الداعي) was a Persian Nizari Ismaili missionary who succeeded Abu Tahir al-Sa'igh as leader of the Assassins' mission in Syria, gaining power in Damascus under Tughtigin.
Bahram Chobin's rebellion
Bahram Chobin's rebellion (بهرام چوبین) was the 590–591 revolt of the Sasanian general Bahram Chobin against King Hormizd IV; he was crowned Bahram VI, then defeated by Khosrow II.
Bahram Mirza
Bahram Mirza (بهرام میرزا) was a Safavid prince of Iran, the youngest son of Shah Ismail I and brother of Shah Tahmasb I, who governed Khorasan, Gilan, and Hamadan and was a noted calligrapher and painter.
Bahram V
Bahram V, called Bahram Gur (بهرام گور), was a Sasanian king of Persia who ruled from 420 to 438, son and successor of Yazdegerd I.