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  • HAJW

    J. T. P. de Bruijn

    and its synonym hejā, two of the many terms which denote types of humorous writing or light verse in Persian.

  • ḤAKAMI

    Mohammad-Mahdi Khalaji

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

  • ḤĀKEM

    cross-reference

    See ADMINISTRATION.

  • 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

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

  • ḤAKIMI, EBRĀHIM

    Abbas Milani and EIr

    Ḥakimi was born into an old and prominent family of court physicians. The family had been court physicians since the 17th century, starting with the eponym of the family, Moḥammad-Dāwud Khan Ḥakim, a physician at the courts of the Safavid Shah Ṣafi and Shah ʿAbbās II and the founder of the Ḥakim Mosque in Isfahan.

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  • ḤAKIMOVA, MAWJUDA

    Evelin Grassi

    (1932-1993), Soviet Tajik poetess, editor, and dramatist. Her poetry consists mainly of lyric miniatures on the theme of love and all manifestations of the natural world, from the Pamir mountains to the simplest flower plucked in a park in the suburbs of Dushanbe. 

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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.