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• HARI RUD

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• ḤARIRA

  Etrat Elahi

  a very light and diluted Persian dish made of fine wheat flour or wheat starch, or with rice flour or rice powder.

• HARISA

  Etrat Elahi

  a cooked dish made from a mixture of grains, usually half-ground wheat and barley, and meat, usually lamb and more recently sometimes beef.

• HARKARN DĀS KANBŌH

  S.H. Qasemi

  the first Hindu author of a Persian work, Eršād al-ṭālebin, commonly known as Enšāʾ-e Harkarn, a collection of documents and model letters.

• HARKI

  Pierre Oberling

  (Herki), a Kurdish tribe of western Azerbaijan, eastern Anatolia, and northeastern Iraq.

• HARP

  Bo Lawergren

  (čang), a string instrument which flourished in Persia in many forms from its introduction, about 3000 BCE, until the 17th century.

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• HARPAGOS

  Muhammad A. Dandamayev

  a Median magnate and the trusted advisor of the last Median king Astyages, In 550 BCE, during the war between the Medes and Persians, Harpagosdefected to support Cyrus II.

• ḤARRĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  an ancient town of Upper Mesopotamia, now located in the modern Turkish province of Diyarbakir approximately 40 km/25 miles south-southeast of Edessa, or Urfa.

• HARRIMAN MISSION

  Fakhreddin Azimi

  The American diplomat W. Averell Harriman was sent to Tehran in July 1951 to mediate between Persia and Great Britain after Persian nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

• HARTNER, WILLY

  A. Panaino

  (1905-1981), professor of the History of Sciences specializing in astronomy,  author of many works devoted to Oriental studies, including ancient Persian calendar systems.