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  • HAMADĀN vii. MONUMENTS

    Ali Mousavi and EIr

    The city of Hamadān, besides its pre-Islamic remains, contains some important Islamic monuments. The most significant is the mausoleum called Gonbad-e ʿAlawiān, square and massive, almost entirely of baked brick. Its façade was once covered with opulent stucco decoration.

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  • HAMADĀN viii. JEWISH COMMUNITY

    Houman Sarshar

    The relative religious freedom that existed in Persia at Yudḡān’s time had widespread effects on the Jewish communities,  in Hamadān in particular. Religious authorities of the two Talmudic schools in Iraq were able to better influence the Jewish communities of Persia, opening yeshivas in Hamadān.

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  • HAMADĀN ix. JEWISH DIALECT

    Donald Stilo

    According to Ehsan Yarshater’s informants, the Jewish community had dwindled from around 13,000 souls in 1920 to less than 1,000 by 1969, and of these about half originated from the Jewish communities of Malāyer, Tuyserkān, and various points in Kurdistan. 

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  • HAMADĀNI, ABU YAʿQUB YUSOF

    cross-reference

    See ABU YAʿQUB HAMADĀNI.

  • HAMADĀNI, BADIʿ-AL-ZAMĀN

    cross-reference

    See BADIʿ-AL-ZAMĀN HAMADĀNI.

  • HAMADĀNI, SAYYED ʿALI

    Parviz Aḏkāʾi

    b. Sayyed Šehāb-al-Din (1314-1384), Sufi author and preacher who undertook a celebrated mission to convert the people of Kashmir to Islam.

  • HAMADĀNIĀN FACTORIES AND ENDOWMENTS

    Habib Borjian

    Established by ʿAli Hamadāniān (1907-63) and his brother Ḥosayn (1909-78), entrepreneurs and industrialists based in Isfahan, these include textile, cement, and sugar factories.

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  • HAMAN

    Shaul Shaked

    the chief courtier of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes), according to the story of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is portrayed as the villain of the narrative.

  • HAMĀRAKARA

    Muhammad A.Dandamayev

    (*hmāra-kara-, lit. “account-maker”), “bookkeeper,” an Old Iranian title attested in various sources of Achaemenid and later times.

  • HAMASPATHMAĒDAYA

    cross-reference

    See GĀHANBĀR; FRAWARDIGĀN.