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• HATAMTU

  Cross-Reference

  See ELAM.

• HĀTEF, SAYYED AḤMAD EṢFAHĀNI

  Ḏabiḥ-Allāh Ṣafā and EIr

  (d. 1783), an influential poet of the 18th century.

• HĀTEFI, ʿABD-ALLĀH

  Michele Bernardini

  (d. Ḵargerd, 1521) Persian poet and nephew of ʿAbd-al-Rahmān Jāmi.

• ḤĀTEM ṬĀʾI

  Mahmoud Omidsalar

  the epitome of generosity and munificence in Arabic and Persian anecdotal traditions.

• ḤĀTEM-NĀMA

  Pegah Shahbaz

  a popular prose romance by an unknown author, consisting of the imaginary adventures of Ḥātem Ṭāʾi, the pre-Islamic Arab noble, renowned for his boundless generosity and graceful hospitality.

• HATRA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  (Ḥaṭrā; Ar. Ḥażr), a strongly fortified city in Upper Mesopotamia (today northern Iraq), situated at lat 35°40′ N, long 42°45′ E in the midst of the desert steppe of the northern Jazīra.

• HAUG, MARTIN

  Almut Hintze

  (1827-1876) Oriental scholar and one of the founders of Iranian studies. His contributions to Old and Middle Iranian studies remained influential well into the twentieth century.

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• HAUMAVARGĀ

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  a term distinguishing one of the three groups of Sakā tribes, Sakā haumavargā, in some of the lists of the peoples in the Achaemenid royal inscriptions.

• HAURVATĀT

  cross-reference

  See HORDĀD; AMƎŠA SPƎNTA.

• ḤĀWI, AL-

  Lutz Richter-Bernburg

  (i.e., al-Ketāb al-ḥāwi fi’l-ṭebb “Comprehensive book on medicine”), the title of a major Arabic work on medicine in twenty-five volumes by Abu Bakr Moḥammad.