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" Bakhshī (Central Asia) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Zarcone, Thierry
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English
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1060871
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ALei1268
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Zarcone, Thierry
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Bakhshī (Central Asia) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Zarcone, Thierry
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(956 words)
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The Uzbek term bakhshī (from Chinese boshi 博, scholar, professor) refers, amongst Uyghurs and Mongols, to a Buddhist priest, a hermit, or a scribe (Laufer, 485–7). In Turkish and Persian sources from eighth/fourteenth-century Central Asia , it is written bakhshī or baḥshī , in the sense of a Buddhist priest (Rashīd al-Dīn, Jamiʿ al-tawārīkh , in Jahn), then, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, as bākhshī , in the sense of a person who heals with the help of spirits (Ăbdullāh Poskāhī, 135, 265), and, in the
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Islam.
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ALei1268.pdf
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