known in Iran as Shaykh-i Bahā’ī; Bahā’ī’s family came from the village of Juba` near Sidon (southern Lebanon), in the vicinity of Jabal `Āmil; as part of a wave of Shī`a scholars, he migrated to Iran. Bahā’ī’s father, a prominent scholar and chief jurisconsult in the Safavid court of Shah Ṭahmāsb, was responsible for Bahā’ī’s early education in the religious sciences. Bahā’ī’ himself became chief jurisconsult in the court of Shāh `Abbās the Great.  [B. Hashemipour]