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HAFEZ xiii. - xiv. HAFEZ’S TOMB (ḤĀFEẒIYA)
Kuros Kamali Sarvestani
The Hafeziya is located south of the Koran Gate (Darvāza-ye Qorʾān) on the northern edge of Shiraz. It is on the site of the famous Golgašt-e Moṣallā, the pleasure ground often mentioned in the poems of Hafez.
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ḤĀFEẒ EṢFAHĀNI
Parviz Mohebbi
Mawlānā Moḥammad, known as Moḵtareʿ (inventor), 15th-16th century engineer, summoned by the Timurid court of Sultan Ḥosayn Bāyqarā to construct a clock after a European model.
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ḤĀFEẒ-E ABRU
Maria Eva Subtelny and Charles Melville
(d. 1430), author of many historical and historico-geographical works in Persian, which were commissioned by Šāhroḵ, the Timurid ruler of Herat during the first decades of the 15th century.
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ḤĀFEẒ-E ʿAJAM
Tahsin Yazıcı
HĀFEẒ-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD, scholar of religion and author, renowned for his ability to write with speed and in an attractive style.
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HAFT
A. Shapur Shahbazi
(seven), the heptad and its cultural significance in Persian history. The number has been explained as the symbolic expression of a distinct culture.
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HAFT AMAHRASPAND YAŠT
Antonio Panaino
or simply Haf-tān yašt, the second hymn of the Avestan corpus. It is dedicated to the seven Zoroastrian entities and recited on the first seven days of the month.
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HAFT EQLIM
Cross-Reference
See HAFT KEŠVAR.
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HAFT KEŠVAR
A. Shapur Shahbazi
(seven regions), the usual geographical division of the world in Iranian tradition; ancient Iranians envisioned the world as vast and round and encircled by a high mountain.
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HAFT ḴOSRAVĀNI
Ameneh Youssefzadeh
the seven musical systems or modes attributed to Bārbad, the famous court musician of the Sasanian king Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 590-628).
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HAFT ḴᵛĀN
Olga M. Davidson
the title of two famous episodes in Ferdowsi’s Šāh-nāma, the Haft Ḵᵛān-e Rostam, and the Haft Ḵᵛān-e Esfandiār, describing seven exploits that each hero had to undertake.