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• ḤAMD-ALLĀH MOSTAWFI

  Charles Melville

  historian and geographer of the Il-khanid period (1281-1344), author of Tāriḵ-e gozida, Ẓafar-nāma, and Nozhat al-qolub.

• ḤAMDĀN QARMAṬ

  Wilferd Madelung

  b. al-Ašʿaṯ (d. 933), Ismaʿili dāʿi and founder of the Ismaʿili movement in Iraq.

• HAMDARD ISLAMICUS

  Ansar Zahid Khan

  English-language quarterly for Islamic Studies, founded in Pakistan in 1978. Published by the Hamdard Foundation of Pakistan.

• ḤĀMED BAL-ḴEŻR AL-ḴOJANDI

  David Pingree

  , ABU MAḤMUD, mathematician and astronomer of the 10th century. His nesba suggests that he originated from Ḵojand in Ferḡāna.

• ḤĀMEDI EṢFAHĀNI

  Tahsin Yazici

  (or Ḥāmedi ʿAjam), a poet of Persian origin (1439-ca. 1485) at the court of the Ottoman Sultan Moḥammad Fāteḥ (Mehmed the Conquerer).

• HAMĒSTAGĀN

  Philippe Gignoux

  a word of uncertain etymology, used in Pahlavi literature to designate the intermediate stage between paradise and hell.

• HAMGAR, MAJDE

  Dabiḥ-Allāh Safā

  , Majd-al-Din b. Aḥmad, known also as Ebn-e Hamgar (hamgar means “weaver”), an important poet of the 7th/13th century (1210-1287).

• ḤAMID QALANDAR

  Khaliq Ahmad Nizami

  (d. 1366), author of Ḵayr al-majāles, the obiter dicta (malfuẓāt) of the Češti shaikh Naṣir-al-Din Maḥmud Čerāḡ-e Dehli, Ḥamid’s father,

• ḤAMID-AL-DIN ABU BAKR BALḴI

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• ḤAMID-AL-DIN KERMĀNI

  Farhad Daftary

  , ABU’L-ḤASAN AḤMAD b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad (d. after 1020-21), a prominent Ismaʿili dāʿi and one of the most accomplished Ismaʿili theologians and philosophers of the Fatimid period.