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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.
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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.
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HOLDICH, THOMAS HUNGERFORD
Denis Wright
As head of the Baluchistan Survey Party from 1883, Holdich organized surveys of south Baluchistan and Makran. In 1884 he headed the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission’s survey party; in 1896 he was chief British Commissioner on the Perso-Baluch Boundary Commission.
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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).
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HŌM
cross-reference
See HAOMA.
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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).
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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.
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HŌMĀN
A. Shapur Shahbazi
son of Vēsa, in Iranian traditional history one of the most celebrated heroes of Turān.
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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.
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HOMĀY O HOMĀYUN
cross-reference
See ḴᵛĀJU KERMĀNI.
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HOMĀYUN
Jean During
(lit. “auspicious”), an important modal system (dastgāh) in traditional Persian music.
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HOMĀYUN PĀDEŠĀH
Wheeler M. Thackston
(1508–56), NĀṢER-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD, second Mughal emperor in Kabul and northern India, and the succesor to Bābor.
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HOMMAIRE de HELL, IGNACE XAVIER MORAND
Jacqueline Calmard-Compas
French engineer, geographer, traveler (1812-1848). He carried out pioneering scientific research in the Ottoman empire, southern Russia, and Persia
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HOMOSEXUALITY
Multiple Authors
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. In Zoroastrianism. ii. In Islamic law. iii. In Persian literature. iv. In modern Persia. See Supplement.
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HOMOSEXUALITY i. IN ZOROASTRIANISM
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Zoroastrian literature contains discussions of personal relations only in legal contexts and is quite explicit with regard to sins of a sexual nature.
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HOMOSEXUALITY ii. IN ISLAMIC LAW
E. K. Rowson
The foundational texts of Islam address, and generally condemn, sexual relations between members of the same sex.
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HOMOSEXUALITY iii. IN PERSIAN LITERATURE
EIr
a sharp contrast exists between the treatment of homosexuality in Islamic law and its reflection in Persian literature, particularly poetry (the chief vehicle of Persian literary expression).
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HOMOSEXUALITY iv. IN MODERN IRAN
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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HONAR O MARDOM
Nassereddin Parvin
a monthly magazine published by the General Office of Fine Arts in the Ministry of Education, 1957, 1962-79.
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HONARESTĀN-E ʿĀLI-E MUSIQI-E MELLI
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.