Table of Contents

• ḤAMZA-NĀMA i. GENERAL

  William L. Hanaway, Jr.

  The hero of Ḥamza-nāma is Ḥamza b. ʿAbd-al-Moṭṭaleb, whose adventures are thought to be a conflation of stories from eastern Persia about Ḥamza b. ʿAbd-Allāh the Kharijite (d. 797-8).

• ḤAMZA-NĀMA ii. In the Subcontinent

  Frances W. Pritchett

  The Indo-Persian romance tradition, extending from the medieval period to the early 20th century, produced prose works of considerable literary and cultural interest, chief among which were many versions of the Ḥamza romance.

• HANAFITE MAḎHAB

  Merlin Swartz

  a school of Sunni jurisprudence named after Abu Ḥanifa Noʿmān b. Ṯābet (699-767), an early Kufan jurist and theologian of Persian descent.

• HANBALITE MAḎHAB

  Merlin Swartz

  a school of Sunni law and theology named after Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 855) which was founded largely under his influence in Baghdad.

• HANG-E AFRĀSIĀB

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  in the national epic, the cave in which Afrāsiāb, the fugitive king of Turān, spent his last days.

• HĀNIBĀL, ʿALI

  Ali Boloukbashi

  (1891-1966), Russian-born Persian scholar and founder of the first journal of anthropology (majalla-ye mardom-šenāsi) in Persia.

• HĀNSAVI

  S. H. Qasemi

  , Shaikh (b. 1184-5, d. i1260-61), mystic, poet, and author.

• HANWAY, JONAS

  Ernest Tucker

  (1712-86), an English merchant who traveled to Persia and wrote an account of the trip which provides an eyewitness view of northern Iran during Nāder Shah’s last years.

• ḤANẒALA BĀDḠISI

  François de Blois

  one of the earliest (possibly the earliest) Persian poets of whom we have any record.

• HAOMA

  Dieter Taillieu, Mary Boyce

  Avestan name for a plant and its divinity.