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• ḤASAN GĀNGU

  M. Shokoohy

  ʿALĀ ʿ-AL-DIN ḤASAN BAHMANŠĀH (r. 1347-57), a Khorasani adventurer at the court of Delhi.

• ḤASAN II

  Farhad Daftary

  ʿALĀ ḎEKREHE’L-SALĀM, Nezāri Ismaʿili Imam and the fourth ruler of Alamut (1162-66). The most important event of his brief reign was his declaration of the qiāma (the Resurrection).

• ḤASAN KHAN QĀJĀR SĀRI AṢLĀN

  cross-reference

  See SĀRI ASÂLĀN.

• ḤASAN ṢABBĀḤ

  Farhad Daftary

  (1050s-1124), prominent Ismaʿili dāʿi  and founder of the medieval Nezāri Ismaʿili state.

• ḤASAN ŠIRĀZI

  Hamid Algar

  (1814-1895), MIRZĀ MOḤAMMAD, often referred to as Mirzā-ye Širāzi, leading Shiʿite cleric chiefly renowned for the role he played in the celebrated Tobacco Boycott of 1892.

• ḤASAN-ʿALI BEG BESṬĀMI

  Ernest Tucker

  one of Nāder Shah’s closest associates, who held the title moʿayyer al-mamālek or “chief assayer” and played an important advisory role throughout Nāder’s reign.

• ḤASAN-ʿALI MIRZĀ ŠOJĀʿ-AL-ṢALṬANA

  cross-reference

  See ŠOJĀʿ-AL-ṢALṬANA, ḤASAN-ʿALI MIRZĀ.

• ḤASAN-E ḠAZNAVI

  Julie Scott Meisami

  (d. ca. 1161), SAYYED EMĀM AŠRAF ḤASAN B. MOḤAMMAD ḤOSAYNI, poet chiefly associated with the court of the Ghaznavid ruler Bahrāmšāh.

• ḤASANI, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD B. EBRĀHIM

  Wilferd Madelung

  Zaydi scholar from Āmol in Ṭabarestān, who flourished in the first half of the 3rd/9th century and taught three Caspian Zaydi imams.

• ḤASANLU TEPPE

  Robert H. Dyson, Jr

  archeological site in West Azerbaijan Province in northwest Persia, a short distance southwest of Lake Urmia (former Reżāʾiya). OVERVIEW of the entry: i. The site. ii. The golden bowl.