Table of Contents
-
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.
-
HAOMA i. BOTANY
Dieter Taillieu
Haoma is the Avestan name for a plant and its divinity, Mid. Pers. hōm, Sogd. xwm, Pers. and other living Iranian languages hōm, hūm and related forms.
-
HAOMA ii. THE RITUALS
Mary Boyce
Haoma yields the essential ingredient for the parahaoma, the consecrated liquid prepared during the main act of worship, the Yasna, and its extensions, the Visperad and Vendidad.
-
ḤAQIQAT (1)
Nasseredin Parvin
(“truth”), title of six different Persian-language newspapers or periodicals, published at various times in Tehran, Rašt, Isfahan, Kabul, and Aarhus (Denmark).
-
ḤAQIQAT (2)
Habib Borjian
(“truth,” apparently a rendering of Russian Pravda), the title of several newspapers in Tajik Persian.
-
HARĀ BƎRƎZAITĪ
cross-reference
See ALBORZ.
-
HARAHUVATIŠ
cross-reference
See ARACHOSIA; ROḴAJ.
-
HARAIVA
cross-reference
See HERAT i.