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Bostanai

BOSTANAI, the name of the first exilarch under Mahommedan rule, in the middle of the 7th century. The exilarchs had their seat in Persia, and were practically the secular heads of the Jewish community in the Orient.

Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)

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