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HĀRUN AL-MONAJJEM
David Pingree
(d. 987), astronomer, astrologer, and Hadith expert.
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HĀRUN AL-RAŠID
C. Edmund Bosworth
(d. 809), HĀRUN B. MOḤAMMAD B. ʿABD-ALLĀH, the fifth caliph of the ʿAbbasid dynasty (r. 786-809), the third son of the caliph al-Mahdi.
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HĀRUN B. ALTUNTAŠ
C. E. Bosworth
son of a Turkish slave commander of Maḥmud of Ghazna who served as governor in Kᵛārazm 1032-35, first for the Ghaznavids, and then as an independent ruler.
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HĀRUN WELĀYAT
cross-reference
See ISFAHAN x. MONUMENTS.
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HĀRUT and MĀRUT
A. Shapur Shahbazi
two fallen angels who taught mankind magic in Babylon, mentioned once in the Koran. Their names derive from the Zoroastrian Ḵordād and Amurdād, two of the Aməša Spəntas.
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HARZANI
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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ḪARZIANU
I. N. Medvedskaya
a city and a district in Media, mentioned in the Assyrian texts of the time of Sargon II (r. 722–705 BCE).
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ḤASAB O NASAB
Louise Marlow
term used in Arabic and New Persian literature to express complementary aspects of the concept of nobility.
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ḤASAN B. ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN
Tahsin Yaziçi
full name: ḤASAN B. ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN, ḤOSĀM-AL-DIN ḴOʾI, 13th-century scribe, poet, and lexicographer from Azerbaijan.
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ḤASAN B. ʿABD-ALLĀH
cross-reference
B. AL-MARZOBĀN AL-SIRĀFI. See SIRĀFI, ABU SAʿID ḤASAN.