|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Bast
BAST
Bast means sanctuary or asylum. Mosques, holy shrines, and foreign embassy compounds have most frequently been used as bast. Although the period of the Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911) is when the most famous bast were taken, instances existed in early Islamic Iran. In April 1905, proconstitutionalist merchants, bankers, and retailers took bast at the Shah Abd al-Azim shrine in Rayy. The most celebrated bast in Iranian history took place in July 1906, when between twelve thousand and sixteen thousand Tehrani demonstrators took bast at the British legation in Tehran, while about one thousand clergymen left the capital in protest for Qom. The bast at the British compound was instrumental in the granting of a constitution, and the creation of a national assembly by the monarch, Mozaffar al-Din Qajar. In turn, the anticonstitutionalist cleric Shaykh Fazlollah Nuri took bast at the Shah Abd al-Azim shrine with some followers for ninety days, to protest the granting of the constitution. At times, the inviolability of bast was breached, when for instance Sayyid Jamal al-Din Asadabadi was expelled from the Shah Abd al-Azim shrine during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah. After the constitutionalist period, the majles (national assembly) was also considered a bast. Mohammad Mossadegh took refuge there in 1953. see also constitutional revolution; mossadegh, mohammad; mozaffar al-din qajar; naser al-din shah; nuri, fazlollah. BibliographyAlgar, Hamid. Religion and State in Iran, 1785–1906: The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Browne, Edward G. The Persian Revolution of 1905–1909. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Neguin Yavari |
|
|
Cite this article
Yavari, Neguin. "Bast." Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Yavari, Neguin. "Bast." Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3424600470.html Yavari, Neguin. "Bast." Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. 2004. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3424600470.html |
|
Bast
Bast , ancient Egyptian cat goddess. At first a goddess of the home, she later became known as a goddess of war. The center of her cult was at Bubastis. Her name also appears as Ubast. |
|
|
Cite this article
"Bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Bast.html "Bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Bast.html |
|
bast
bast / bast/ • n. (also bast fiber) fibrous material from the phloem of a plant, used as fiber in matting, cord, etc. |
|
|
Cite this article
"bast." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bast." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bast.html "bast." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bast.html |
|
Bast
|
|
|
Cite this article
JOHN BOWKER. "Bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Bast.html JOHN BOWKER. "Bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Bast.html |
|
bast
bast inner bark of the lime. OE. bæst, corr. to (M)Du., (O)HG., ON. bast :- Gmc. *bastaz,-am, of unkn. orig.
|
|
|
Cite this article
T. F. HOAD. "bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bast.html T. F. HOAD. "bast." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bast.html |
|
bast
bast An old name for phloem.
|
|
|
Cite this article
"bast." A Dictionary of Biology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bast." A Dictionary of Biology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O6-bast.html "bast." A Dictionary of Biology. 2004. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O6-bast.html |
|
bast
bast see bark . |
|
|
Cite this article
"bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-bast.html "bast." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-bast.html |
|
bast
bast See RAFFIA.
|
|
|
Cite this article
MICHAEL ALLABY. "bast." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "bast." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-bast.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "bast." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-bast.html |
|
bast
bast
•bast • cineaste • encomiast
•symposiast • enthusiast • bombast
•oblast • chloroplast • iconoclast
•gymnast • pederast • fantast
|
|
|
Cite this article
"bast." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bast." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bast.html "bast." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bast.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
