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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 and also, as oil adviser, defended Persia at the Hague International Tribunal against the British complaint.

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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).

• HAŠTPĀY

  Antonio Panaino

  name of a game from the Sasanian era which has not been precisely identified.

• HAŠTRUD

  Z. Sadrolashrafi

  a sub-province (šahrestān) in the south of Azerbaijan, situated between lat 36°45’ and 37°24’ N,  long 46°25’ and 47°24’ E, some 134 km from Tabriz and 101 km from Miāna Sub-province.

• HAŠTRUDI, MOḤSEN

  A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh and Fariborz Majidi

  or Hachtroudi (1907-1976), contemporary Iranian mathematician and popular lecturer.

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• ḤĀTAMI, ʿALI

  Jamsheed Akrami

  (b. Tehran, 1944; d. Tehran, 1996), Iranian scriptwriter and film director. For all his interest in dealing with the characters and incidents shaping the political and social history of the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, Ḥātami’s films are not particularly concerned with faithful representation and historical accuracy. He preferred a more creative interpretation.

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