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• ḤABLARUD

  M. H. Ganji

  river in Damāvand and Garmsār districts of Semnān province in northern Persia.

• ḤADĀʾEQ AL-SEḤR

  N. Y. Chalisova

  shortened title of the famous treatise Ḥadāʾeq al-seḥr fi daqāʾeq al-šeʿr (“Gardens of magic in the subtleties of poetry”) by Rašid(-e) Waṭwāt (d. 1182-83).

• HADAF EDUCATIONAL GROUP

  Aḥmad Birašk

  (Goruh-e Farhangi-e Hadaf), a pioneering private educational complex founded in Tehran in 1949-50.

• HĀDI ḤASAN

  K. A. Jaisi

  Indian scholar of Persian literature (1894-1963).

• HĀDI SABZAVĀRI

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  , Shaikh Mollā (1797-1873), the most famous Islamic philosopher of the Qajar period, as well as an outstanding theologian and a notable poet.

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• ḤADIQAT AL-ḤAQIQA WA ŠARIʿAT AL-ṬARIQA

  J.T.P. de Bruijn

  a Persian didactical maṯnawi by the twelfth-century poet Ḥakim Majdud b. Ādam Sanāʾi.

• HADIŠ (1)

  cross-reference

  See PALACE i. ACHAEMENID.

• HADIŠ (2)

  Mary Boyce

  the Avestan name of a minor Zoroastrian divinity, glossed in Pahlavi (tr. of Visprad 1:9) by mēnōg ī xānag “Spirit of the house.”

• HADITH

  Shahab Ahmed, A. Kazemi-Moussavi, Ismail K. Poonawala, Hamid Algar, Shaul Shaked

  term denoting reports that convey the normative words and deeds of the Prophet Moḥammad; it is understood to refer generically to the entire corpus of this literature and to the thousands of individual reports that comprise it.

• HADITH i. A General Introduction

  Shahab Ahmed

  Hadith literature is understood to be the repository of the sonna (normative conduct) of the Prophet, which is regarded as second in authority only to the Koran as a source of Divine truth.