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• HA-GE’ULLAH

  Amnon Netzer

  Judeo-Persian weekly newspaper published in Tehran between 1920 and 1923.

• ḤABAQUQ, TOMB OF

  S. Soroudi

  a monument in western Persia, according to local traditions, the tomb of the prophet Ḥabaquq.

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• ḤABIB AL-ESLĀM

  Nasser-al-Din Parvin

  Persian-language weekly newspaper published in Kabul, 1929 replacing Amān-e afḡān at the time of Bačča-ye Saqqā.

• ḤABIB EṢFAHĀNI

  Tahsin Yazıcı

  , MIRZĀ, Iranian poet, grammarian, and translator (1835-93), who spent much of his life in exile in Ottoman Turkey. He is noted for his Persian grammar, Dastur-e Soḵan (Istanbul, 1872), which is regarded as the first systematic grammar of the Persian language and served as a model for many later works.

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• ḤABIB-ALLĀH

  Ludwig W. Adamec

  , Amir, monarch who initiated modernization in Afghanistan (b. 1872, d. 1919).

• ḤABIB-ALLĀH ḴORĀSĀNI

  Jalal Matini

  , Hājj Mirzā, an enlightened religious scholar of Mašhad and a poet (1850-1909).

• ḤABIB-ALLĀH SĀVAJI

  Barbara Schmitz

  (1587-1628), one of the more conservative artists active during the reign of Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1587-1628). All we know about him, besides his paintings, is the brief note by his contemporary Qāżi Aḥmad, who, writing in 1596, referred to him as a masterful artist distinguished among his peers.

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• ḤABIBĀBĀDI, MOʿALLEM

  Cross-Reference

  See MOʿALLEM ḤABIBĀBĀDI.

• ḤABIBIYA SCHOOL

  Ludwig W. Adamec

  an elite high school for boys established in 1903 in Kabul and named after its founder, Amir Ḥabib-Allāh.

• ḤABL AL-MATIN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (lit. strong cord), name of three newspapers published in Calcutta, Tehran, and Rašt.

• ḤABLARUD

  M. H. Ganji

  river in Damāvand and Garmsār districts of Semnān province in northern Persia.

• ḤADĀʾEQ AL-SEḤR

  N. Y. Chalisova

  shortened title of the famous treatise Ḥadāʾeq al-seḥr fi daqāʾeq al-šeʿr (“Gardens of magic in the subtleties of poetry”) by Rašid(-e) Waṭwāt (d. 1182-83).

• HADAF EDUCATIONAL GROUP

  Aḥmad Birašk

  (Goruh-e Farhangi-e Hadaf), a pioneering private educational complex founded in Tehran in 1949-50.

• HĀDI ḤASAN

  K. A. Jaisi

  Indian scholar of Persian literature (1894-1963).

• HĀDI SABZAVĀRI

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  , Shaikh Mollā (1797-1873), the most famous Islamic philosopher of the Qajar period, as well as an outstanding theologian and a notable poet.

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• ḤADIQAT AL-ḤAQIQA WA ŠARIʿAT AL-ṬARIQA

  J.T.P. de Bruijn

  a Persian didactical maṯnawi by the twelfth-century poet Ḥakim Majdud b. Ādam Sanāʾi.

• HADIŠ (1)

  cross-reference

  See PALACE i. ACHAEMENID.

• HADIŠ (2)

  Mary Boyce

  the Avestan name of a minor Zoroastrian divinity, glossed in Pahlavi (tr. of Visprad 1:9) by mēnōg ī xānag “Spirit of the house.”

• HADITH

  Shahab Ahmed, A. Kazemi-Moussavi, Ismail K. Poonawala, Hamid Algar, Shaul Shaked

  term denoting reports that convey the normative words and deeds of the Prophet Moḥammad; it is understood to refer generically to the entire corpus of this literature and to the thousands of individual reports that comprise it.

• HADITH i. A General Introduction

  Shahab Ahmed

  Hadith literature is understood to be the repository of the sonna (normative conduct) of the Prophet, which is regarded as second in authority only to the Koran as a source of Divine truth.