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• ḤASANLU TEPPE i. THE SITE

  Robert H. Dyson, Jr

  The Qadar River rises to the west in the Zagros on the Assyrian frontier near the ancient Urartian city of Musasir. Its eastern end drains into marshes north of the modern town of Mahābād, which lies northwest of the ancient country of Mannai.

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• ḤASANLU TEPPE ii. THE GOLDEN BOWL

  Robert H. Dyson, Jr

  The “gold bowl of Ḥasanlu” was found in the debris of Burned Building I West on the Citadel Mound at Ḥasanlu in 1958. It had fallen into room 9 in the southeastern corner of the building.

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• ḤASANVAND

  Pierre Oberling

  a Lor tribe of the Piškuh region in Lorestān. In the 1870s it numbered some 2,500 families distributed among 16 tiras.

• ḤĀŠEM, RAḤIM

  Habib Borjian

  (1908,-1993), Tajik essayist, literary critic, and translator, who is considered to have been one of the founders of modern Tajik literature.

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• HĀŠEMIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E HĀŠEM.

• HASHISH

  Cross-Reference

  See BANG.

• ḤASIBI, KĀẒEM

  Bagher Agheli and EIr

  (1906-1990), political figure and university professor. When the oil industry was nationalized in 1951, Ḥasibi, as Deputy Minister of Finance, became a member of the delegation charged with the eviction of the former oil company. He accompanied Dr. Moṣaddeq to the U.N. Security Council.

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• HAŠT BEHEŠT (1)

  cross-reference

  See ISFAHAN x. MONUMENTS.

• HAŠT BEHEŠT (2)

  Michele Bernardini

  (lit: “the Eight Heavens, the Eight paradises”), a cosmological concept used on several occasions as the title of literary works, or as the name of a particular architectural form in Persian, Turkish, and Indian contexts.

• HAŠTPAR

  Marcel Bazin

  city in the western part of Gilān Province, center of the šahrestān (sub-provincial district) of Ṭāleš (or Tāleš).