Table of Contents
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ḤAMZA B. ĀḎARAK
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Atrak or ʿAbd-Allāh Abu Ḵozayma (d. 828), Kharijite rebel in Sistān and Khorasan during early ʿAbbasid times.
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HAMZA NİGARİ
Tahsin Yazi
(Ḥamza Negāri) Ḥāji Mir Ḥamza Efendi b. Mir Pāšā, Sufi and poet from Azerbaijan, who wrote in both Persian and Turkish (d. 1886).
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ḤAMZA-NĀMA
William L. Hanaway, Jr., Frances W. Pritchett
a popular prose romance transmitted orally and written down at a time unknown.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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HANG-E AFRĀSIĀB
A. Sh. Shahbazi
in the national epic, the cave in which Afrāsiāb, the fugitive king of Turān, spent his last days.
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HĀNIBĀL, ʿALI
Ali Boloukbashi
(1891-1966), Russian-born Persian scholar and founder of the first journal of anthropology (majalla-ye mardom-šenāsi) in Persia.
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HĀNSAVI
S. H. Qasemi
(1184/85-1260/61), Shaikh, mystic, poet, and author.