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  • Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, responding to questions from a "concerned person," has issued a fatwa regarding the presidential inauguration of Ahmadinejad:

    Iran Uprising Blogging: Week Of July 20 The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • Before she leaves, Simin hires a devout young woman named Razieh Sareh Bayat to be the housekeeper for Nader and his daughter.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: A Separation Marshall Fine 2011

  • Grand Ayatollahs Hassan Sanei and Asadollah Bayat have declared the regime's founding principle of wilayat al-faqih clerical rule to be "contrary to Islam."

    Iran's Green Movement Lives Amir Taheri 2011

  • Among the fellow inmates he had converted to Salafism and brought into the Bayat al-Imam were a substantial number of prisoners from Iraq.

    The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 2006

  • First we called it al-Tawhid, then changed the name to Bayat al-Imam [Allegiance to the Imam].

    The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 2006

  • Among the fellow inmates he had converted to Salafism and brought into the Bayat al-Imam were a substantial number of prisoners from Iraq.

    The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 2006

  • First we called it al-Tawhid, then changed the name to Bayat al-Imam [Allegiance to the Imam].

    The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 2006

  • She said: The name Al-Bayati refers to membership in one of the divisions of the Bayat tribe, which can be found in Iraq, Iran and Turkey and which can be Sunni or Shiite and Turkman, Kurd, or Arab linguistically and now politically-speaking.

    Monday, May 28, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • It is thought that the Bayat arrived in Iraq with the Oghuz Turks.

    Monday, May 28, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • There are individuals called Bayati in Iraq, Bayat in Iran and BayatlI in Turkey.

    Monday, May 28, 2007 As'ad 2007

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