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HEAD GEAR
cross-reference
See CLOTHING.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA
Multiple Authors
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Pre-Islamic period. ii. Medieval period. iii. Qajar period. iv. Pahlavi period.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA i. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD
Philippe Gignoux
Health and medicine are clearly defined in Pahlavi literature in the philosophical and moral tradition already taught by the fifth-century BCE Greek “father of medicine,” Hippocrates.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA ii. MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA iii. QAJAR PERIOD
Amir Arsalan Afkhami
Under the Qajars a centralized public health policy was introduced for the first time in Persia.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA iv. PAHLAVI PERIOD
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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HEAVEN
Cross-Reference
See ĀSMĀN; ESCHATOLOGY.
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HECATAEUS OF MILETUS
Joseph Wiesehöfer
a Greek author from the city of Miletus in Asia Minor (fl. between 560 and 418 BCE), author of a geographical survey of the regions and the peoples in the Achaemenid empire.
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HECATOMPYLUS
cross-reference
See ŠAHR-E QUMIS.
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HEDĀYAT AL-MOTAʿALLEMIN FI’L-ṬEBB
Jalal Matini
the complete title of the oldest extant treatise on medicine written in Persia, which is also commonly referred to simply as Ketāb-e Hedāyat.
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HEDĀYAT, MOḴBER-AL-SALṬANA
Manouchehr Kasheff, Amemeh Yousefzadeh
(1864-1955), MEHDIQOLI, statesman, author, and musicologist.
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HEDĀYAT, MOḴBER-AL-SALṬANA i. LIFE AND WORK
Manouchehr Kasheff
(1864-1955), statesman, author, and musicologist, whose political career include a role in the Constitutional Revolution, tenures as governor-general of Fārs and of Azerbaijan during World War I and its aftermath, and premiership in the early Pahlavi era.
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HEDĀYAT, MOḴBER-AL-SALṬANA ii. AS MUSICIAN
Ameneh Yousefzadeh
Apart from a book about musical theory, the Majmaʿ al-adwār (Tehran, 1938), we owe him one of the earliest complete notations of the repertoire of Persian music (radifs).
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HEDĀYAT, REŻĀQOLI KHAN
Paul E. Losensky
Persian literary historian, administrator, and poet of the Qajar period (1800-1871).
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ
Multiple Authors
(Hedāyat, Ṣādeq), the eminent fiction writer (1903-1951), who had a vast influence on the next generation of Persian writers.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ i. LIFE AND WORK
Homa Katouzian and EIr
Sadeq Hedayat was the youngest child of Hedā-yatqoli Khan Eʿteżād-al-Molk, the notable literary historian, the dean of the Military Academy.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ ii. THEMES, PLOTS, AND TECHNIQUE IN HEDAYAT’S FICTION
Michael Graig Hillmann
Most of the short stories that Sadeq Hedayat wrote between the late 1920s and the mid-1930s are generally culture-specific, full of local color, and depict some aspects of Iranian life.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ iii. HEDĀYAT AND FOLKLORE STUDIES
Ulrich Marzolph
Hedayat is acknowledged as a major contributor in twentieth-century Iran to the growing awareness devoted to the collection and study of various aspects of everyday culture, particularly verbal art.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ iv. TRANSLATIONS OF PAHLAVI TEXTS
Touraj Daryaee
Sadeq Hedayat traveled to India in 1936 and stayed for less than two years. In Bombay he began studying Middle Persian and some Pāzand with the Parsi scholar B. T. Anklesaria.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ v. Hedayat in India
Nadeem Akhtar
Hedayat’s sojourn in India (1936) helped him add a new aspect to his works and provided him with the opportunity to study Middle Persian with the Parsi scholar Bahramgore Tahmuras Anklesaria. His story “Mihanparast” is apparently a reflection of his experience during the sea trip to India.
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