Barmak 70 Baiazid 498 A. H. His brother Sultan Muhammad succeeded him. Barmak, <-^^, the name of a nohle family, originally
- from Ballch in Khurasan, and highly celebrated all over
the East for their generosity, magnificence, and distin- guished patronage of men of genius. One of the most illustrious was governor to the khah'f Harun-al-Rashid, and his son Ja'far, afterwards minister to that prince ; but having incurred his displeasure, he with several of the heads of the family was put to death. Vide Ja'far-al- Barmaki. Baroda, l^j)^^ raja of. 77(/e Pelaji. Basasiri, iSji'^^"^-) (a glutton) was the nickname, and afterwards the surname of Arsalan, who from a slave became Commander-in-Chief of the armies of Baha-ud- daula, the wazi'r of the khalif of Baghdad. Having quarrelled with him he fled to Egypt and put himself under the protection of Al-Mustanasir Billah, the fifth khalif of Egypt of the Fatimite dynasty. After some time he came to Baghdad. He toolv " Kaem, the 26th khalif of the Ab- basides, prisoner in Baghdad, deposed him, and caused . Mustanasir, to be acknowledged the only and legitimate chief of all the Musalmans. He maintained Mustanasir in the khilafat for one year and a half, after which Tu- ghral Beg, Sultan of the Saljukides, put Kaem on the throne of Baghd:id again, defeated and killed Basasirf 1059 A. D., 451 A. H., and sent his head to Kaem, who caused it to be carried on a pike through the streets of Baghdad. Bashir-ibn-ul-Lais, e.>^t j't'^^., or Laith, the bro- ther of the arch-rebel Rafa-ibn-ul-Lais, who had revolted against Harun-al-Eashfd the khah'f of Baghdad in the year 806 A. D., 190 A. H., at Samarkand, and assembled a considerable force to supjjort him in his defection ; notwithstanding all Harun's care, the rebels made in 807 A. D., 191 A. H., great progress in the conquest of Khurasan. According to Abul Faraj, in the year 809 A. D., 193 A. H., Baslu'r was brought in chains to Harun, who was then at the jioint of death. At the sight of him the khalff declared, that if he could speak only two words he would say kill him ; and immediately ordered him to he cut to pieces in his presence. Basiti, poetical name of a person who is the author of the biography of poets called " Tazkira Basiti. Basus, an Arabian woman, from whom originated a war, called Harb-i-Basus, which has since become a proverb to express, " Great events from little causes." Two Arabian tribes fought about 40 years, because a camel belonging to this woman broke a hen's egg ; the owner of the egg wounded the camel with an arrow, and the two tribes were instantly in arms. Batalmiyusi, t5** J^^^', an Arabian aiithor, who died in 1030 A. D., 421 A. H. He wrote a treatise on the qua- lities requisite in. a secretary and good writer, and another on genealogies. Batu Khan, ^^j'^k, the son of Juji Khan, and grand- son of Changez Khan. He ruled at Kipchak and was cotemporary with Pope Innocent IV. BaUWab, vL?^? (or Bouwab) surname of Abu'l Hasan 'AH Kala, who is better known under the name of ibn-Bouwab. It is he who improved the form of the Arabic Alphabet after Ibn-Makla. He died in 1022 A. D., 413 A. H., or as some say in 1032 A. D., 423 A. H. After him Ya'kub, sui'namcd Mustaa'simf, reduced it to its present form. Baian, ^^^-^j the poetical name of Eiwaja Ahsan-uddin or Ahsan-uUah Khan of Agra, who was living at Dehli in 1760 A. D, 1174 A. H. Baiazid I (Sultan), '^.y^k whom we call Bajazet, sumamed Ilderim, or Lightning, succeeded his father Murad I (Amurath) in 1389 A. D., 791 A. H., as Sultan of the Turks. He caused his elder brother Ya'kub, his rival for the throne, to be strangled, an act of barbarity which since his time has become a custom at the Turkish com-t. He conquered Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Thes- saly ; and after he had made the emperor of Constan- tinople tributary to his power, he marched to attack Tamerlane in the east. He was, however, totally defeated near Angoria on Friday the 21st July, 1402 A. D., 19th Zil-hijja, 804 A. H., and taken prisoner ; and when the proud conqueror asked him what he would have done with him if he had obtained the victory, Baiazid answered that he would have confined him in an iron cage. " Such then shall be thy fate," rejoined Tamerlane, and ordered him to be carried about with his camp in an iron cage. Baiazid died on the 8th of March, 1403 A. D., 13th Sha'- ban, 805 A. H., at Antioch in Pisidia during his confine- ment in Taimur's camp. His son Musa, who was with his father at the time of his death, brought his remains to Brusa and buried there. During his (Miisa's) absence in the camp, his brother Sulaiman had ascended the throne. Baiazid II, '^iyiS'. ij-^'^'^, (Sultan) emperor of Turkey succeeded his father Muhammad II. to the throne of Constantinople in May, 1481 A. D., Eabi' I, 886 A. H. He extended the boundaries of his kingdom ; and obliged the Venetians to sue for peace. His reign was distracted by intestine discord, and he fell by the perfidy of his son Salim I, who caused him to be poisoned in 1612 A. D., 918 A. H., in the 60th year of his age and Slst of his reign. He was a man of uncommon talents, and did much for the improvement of his empire, and the promo- tion of the sciences. Baiazid Ansari, isJ-'^^ '^i^ik, the Afghan Apostle, called Pfr Eoshan, founder of the Sufi sect called " R6- shania," or "the enlightened." He had established amid the mountains of Afghanistan a temporal power upon the authority of his spiritual character, which enabled him and his successors to disturb the tranquillity of the Em- pire of Dehli, when, under the celebrated Akbar, it had reached the very zenith of its power. Baiazid Bustami (Khwaja), cs'"^^ -^O^k the famous ascetic of Bustam, whose original name was Taifurf ; he is therefore sometimes called Baiazid Taifuri- al-Bustami. His father's name was 'Isa-ibn-Adam-ibn- 'Isa-ibn-'Alf, His grandfather was a Gabr or magian, but became a convert to Islamism. These two brothers Adam and 'All, were like himself, devout ascetics, but in an inferior degree. He was born in the year 777 A. D., 160 A. H., lived to a great age, and died between the years 845 or 848 A. D., 231 or 234 A. H., but according to Ibn-Khalikan his death took place in 875 or 878 A. D., 261 or 264 A H. He is said to have been a cotemporary of Ahmad Khizroya who died 240 A. H. Baiazid Khan, J^^-j faujdar of Sarhind, who was commanded by the emperor Farrukh-siyar to punish the Sikhs, who had risen in rebellion ; he took the field, but was assassinated in his tent when alone at evening prayers, by a Sikh commissioned for that purpose by Banda their chief, and the mm-derer escaped unhurt. This circimistance took place about the year 1714 A. D., 1126 A. H. Baiazid (Sultan), '^iyP. cj'^^*"- There is a cenotaph at Chatigaon, called the Rauza of Sultan Baiazid. It is related that he was born at Bustam in Khurasan, of which country he was king ; but abandoning regal pomp and cares for the tranquillitj' of the ascetic life, he came with twelve attending disciples to Chatigaon. Their arrival was promptly opposed by the king of the fairies and the
