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• ḤOBAYŠ B. EBRĀHIM B. MOḤAMMAD TEFLISI

  Tahsin Yazici

  author of numerous scientific works who lived in Anatolia (d. ca. 1203-04).

• ḤOḎEQ, JUNAYDOLLO MAḴDUM

  Keith Hitchins

  (ḤĀḎEQ, JONAYD-ALLĀH; b. mid-1780s; killed 1843), one of the leading Tajik poets of his time.

• HODIVALA, SHAHPURSHAH HORMASJI DINSHAHJI

  Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa

  (d. 1944), professor of literature, history, and political economy,  best known for his works on Parsi history and on numismatics.

• HODIVALA, SHAPURJI KAVASJI

  Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa

  (1870-1931), scholar of Avestan and Zoroastrian studies.

• ḤODUD AL-ʿĀLAM

  C. EDMOND Bosworth

  a concise but very important Persian geography of the then known world, Islamic and non-Islamic, begun in 982-83 by an unknown author from the province of Guzgān (in northern Afghanistan).

• HOERNLE, AUGUSTUS FREDERIC RUDOLF

  Ursula Sims-Williams

  philologist of Indian languages and decipherer of Khotanese (1841-1918).

• HOFFMANN, KARL

  Johanna Narten

  (1915-1996), German Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranist. From the 1960s on, he particularly devoted his attention to the history of the Avesta tradition, above all to the Avestan script.

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• HOJIR

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  in traditional Iranian history, a hero who guarded the Dež-e Sapid “White Fort” on the border of Iran and Turān.

• ḤOJJAT

  Maria Dakake

  (“proof or argument”), a term used as: (1) a line of argument in debate; (2) designation of the Shiʿite Imams;  (3) an epithet of the Twelfth Imam; (4) a high official in the Ismaʿili missionary activities

• ḤOJJAT-AL-ESLĀM

  Hamid Algar

  (lit. Proof of Islam), a title awarded to Shiʿite scholars, originally as an honorific but later as a means of indicating their status in the hierarchy of the learned.

• ḤOJJATIYA

  Mahmoud Sadri

  a Shiʿite religious lay association founded in 1953 by the charismatic cleric Shaikh Maḥmud Ḥalabi to defend Islam against the Bahai missionary activities.

• HOJVIRI, ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALI

  Gerhard Böwering

  B. ʿOṮMĀN B. ʿALI AL-ḠAZNAVI AL-JOLLĀBI (d. ca. 1071-72), author of the Kašf al-maḥjub, the most celebrated early Persian Sufi treatise.

• HOLDICH, THOMAS HUNGERFORD

  Denis Wright

  , Colonel Sir, British Army officer and Anglo-Indian surveyor (1842-1929). He joined the Survey of India in 1865 and was Superintendent of Frontier Surveys from 1891 until retirement in 1898.

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• ḤOLWI, JAMĀL-AL-DIN MAḤMUD

  Tahsin Yazi

  biographer of the leaders of the Ḵalwati Sufi order and minor poet (1574-1654).

• HŌM

  cross-reference

  See HAOMA.

• HŌM YAŠT

  W. W. Malandra

  name given to a section of the Avestan Yasna, namely, Y. 9-11.11. It is central to the ritual and is recited prior to the priestly consumption of the parahaoma (Pahl. parāhōm).

• HOMĀM-AL-DIN

  William L. Hanaway and Leonard Lewisohn

  13th-century Persian poet, best known for his ḡazals, which follow those of Saʿdi in style and tone.

• HŌMĀN

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  son of Vēsa, in Iranian traditional history one of the most celebrated heroes of Turān.

• HOMĀY ČEHRZĀD

  Jalil Doostkhah

  according to Iranian traditional history, a Kayānid queen; she was daughter, wife, and successor to the throne of Bahman, son of Esfandiār.

• HOMĀY O HOMĀYUN

  cross-reference

  See ḴᵛĀJU KERMĀNI.