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• ḤAKAMI

  Mohammad-Mahdi Khalaji

  , Mirzā ʿALI-AKBAR (ca.1848-1925-6), philosopher and theosopher, known in his lifetime as Ḥakim but later referred to as Ḥakami.

• ḤĀKEM

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• ḤĀKEM BE-AMR-ALLĀH

  Farhad Daftary

  , ABU ʿALI MANṢUR, the sixth Fatimid caliph and sixteenth Ismaʿili Imam (r. 996-1021), arguably the most controversial member of the Fatimid dynasty.

• ḤAKIM ʿALAWI KHAN

  Farid Ghassemlou

  an Iranian physician and author in the service of the Mughal Emperor Moḥammad Shah as his chief physician with the title of Moʾtamen-al-Moluk.  

• ḤAKIM ATĀ

  Devin DeWeese

  a Central Asian Sufi; he is usually named as a direct disciple of Aḥmad Yasavi, and would therefore have lived in the early 13th century.

• ḤAKIM TERMEḎI

  Bernd Radtke

  , ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAli, a prolific mystic author, many of whose writings have survived (b. 820-830, d. 907-12).

• ḤAKIMI, EBRĀHIM

  Abbas Milani and EIr

  (Ḥakim-al-Molk) (1871-1959), Persian statesman, three times prime minister.

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• ḤĀL

  Jean During

  (lit. condition, state), an essential notion in Persian arts, especially music, which is supposed to bring about a meditative state.

• ḤALABI, ABU'L-ṢĀLEḤ

  Etan Kohlberg

  Taqi-al-Din b. Najm-al-Din b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad (b. 984-85, d. 1055), Imami jurist and theologian.

• ḤALABI, MAḤMUD

  Mahmoud Sadri

  , Shaikh (1900-1998), charismatic cleric and founder of the Ḥojjatiya Association (Anjoman-e Ḥojjatiya), whose primary objective was to meet the polemical challenge of the Bahai faith and the perceived danger of its aggressive missionary activity in Persia. It was terminated after the Islamic revolution of 1979

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