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13.6.4 Biography: Families, Tribes, Races: Bōhorahs
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§ 1448. M. ʿAbbās “Rifʿat” S̲h̲īrwānī has already been mentioned as the author of the Tārīk̲h̲ i Āl i amjād (no. 308), the Sulṭān-nāmah (no. 600) and the Bāg̲h̲ i c̲h̲ahār-c̲h̲aman (no. 1005).

Qalāʾid al-jawāhir fī aḥwāl al-Bawāhir,1 composed in 1287/1870–1. Edition: place ? 1301/1883–4 (Āṣafīyah i p. 248).

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Notes

^ Back to text1. For the Bohoras, or Bohrahs, a caste in Western India, mostly Ismāʿīlī S̲h̲īʿites in the Bombay Presidency, see Ency. Isl. under Bohorās (T. W. Arnold).

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“13.6.4 Biography: Families, Tribes, Races: Bōhorahs”, in: Storey Online, Charles Ambrose Storey. Consulted online on 21 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2772-7696_SPLO_COM_10213064>
First published online: 2021



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