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• HŌŠANG

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  called Pēšdād, an early hero-king in Iranian tradition, father of the Iranians and founder of the Pēšdādian dynasty.

• HŌŠANG JĀMĀSP

  Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal

  a distinguished Parsi scholar-priest (1833-1908).

• ḤOSAYN B. ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA

  cross-reference

  See JALĀYERIDS.

• ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI

  Multiple Authors

  ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI B. ABI ṬĀLEB, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH, the second surviving grandson of the Prophet Moḥammad through his daughter Fāṭema.

• ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI i. LIFE AND SIGNIFICANCE IN SHIʿISM

  Wilferd Madelung

  In contrast to the pacifist and conciliatory character of his elder brother, Ḥosayn inherited his father’s fighting spirit and intense family pride, although he did not acquire his military prowess and experience.

• ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI ii. IN POPULAR SHIʿISM

  Jean Calmard

  Legendary accounts about Ḥosayn and his martyrdom were from the outset influenced by his status as a Shiʿite Imam.

• ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI iii. THE PASSION OF ḤOSAYN

  Peter Chelkowski

  The taʿzia (literally “mourning”) is a dramatic form which Shiʿite Muslims in Persia have created to commemorate the tragedy of Ḥosayn ebn ʿAli, and thus it is comparable to the Christian passion play. See also TA'ZIA.

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• ḤOSAYN B. OVAYS

  cross-reference

  See JALAYERIDS.

• ḤOSAYN B. RUḤ

  Said Amir Arjomand

  , SHAIKH ABU’L-QĀSEM ḤOSAYN B. RUḤ B. ABI BAḤR NOWBAḴTI (d. 938), third of the four “special vicegerents” (nowwab-e ḵāṣṣa) of the Hidden Imam.

• ḤOSAYN BĀYQARĀ

  Hans R. Roemer

  the common designation for Sultan Abu’l-Ḡāzi Ḥosayn Mirzā b. Manṣur b. Bāyqarā, the last Timurid ruler of major importance in Khorasan (r. 1469-70 and 1470-1506).

• ḤOSAYN KARBALĀʾI

  Leonard Lewisohn

  TABRIZI BĀBĀ-FARAJI, popularly known as Ebn Karbalāʾi, a major Persian historian of Sufis and Sufism of 16th-century Persia and a poet (d. 1589).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN ĀJUDĀN-BĀŠI

  Ḥ. Maḥbubi Ardakāni

  probably the most important officer to hold the military rank of adjudant-en-chef (see ĀJŪDĀN-BĀŠI) during the Qajar period (d. ca.1866-67).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN KAMĀNČAKAŠ

  Ameneh Youssefzadeh

  a famous musician and a master of the kamānča, the chief traditional Persian string instrument played with a bow (d. 1934).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN MOQADDAM MARĀḠAʾI

  cross-reference

  See ĀJUDĀN-BĀŠI; NEẒĀM-AL-DAWLA.

• ḤOSAYN KHAN ŠĀMLU

  Roger M. Savory

  , b. ʿAbdi Beg Šāmlu (d. 1535), nephew of Shah Esmāʿil I, Safavid governor of Herat.

• ḤOSAYN SHAH ARḠUN

  cross-reference

  See ARGHUNID DYNASTY OF SIND in Supplement.

• ḤOSAYN-E KORD-E ŠABESTARI

  Ulrich Marzolph

  Persian popular romance narrating the exploits of a Kurdish warrior from Šabestar known solely by the name of Ḥosayn.

• ḤOSAYNI

  Bruno Nettl

  a guša (significant melodic unit) of the canonic repertory of Persian classical music (radif).

• ḤOSAYNI BALḴI

  ʿAbd-al-ḥayy Ḥabibi

  13th-century translator into Persian of Wāʿeẓ-e Balḵi’s no longer extant Arabic work, the Fażāʾel-e Balḵ.

• ḤOSAYNI DAŠTAKI ŠIRĀZI

  cross-reference

  See DAŠTAKI, AMIR JAMĀL-AL-DIN.