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  • 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

    (d. 1535), b. ʿAbdi Beg Šāmlu, 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.

  • ḤOSAYNIYA

    Jean Calmard

    buildings specifically designed to serve as venues for Moḥarram ceremonies commemorating the martyrdom of Ḥosayn b. ʿAli.

  • ḤOSAYNIYA-YE MOŠIR

    Jean Calmard

    a ḥosayniya building in the Sang-e Siāh quarter of Shiraz, famous for its exquisite tile paintings.

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN MĀFI

    Cross-Reference

    See NEẒĀM-AL-SALṬANA MĀFI, ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN.

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN SARDĀR-E IRAVĀNI

    George A. Bournoutian

    important governor in the early Qajar period (b. ca. 1742, d. 1831).

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI, ĀQĀ

    Ameneh Youssefzadeh

    noted tār player and teacher (1853-1916). His performances were considered both technically brilliant and artistically exquisite. The regularity and force of the down and up strokes (rāst and čap) of his plectrum were much admired. He used a five-string tār and disapproved of the addition of the sixth string.

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  • ḤOSN O DEL

    Ḏabiḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

    an allegorical work by Fattāḥi Nišāburi (1404-46), one of the best examples of rhyming prose in the Timurid period.

  • ḤOSN-E TAʿLIL

    Natalia Chalisova

    (lit. “beauty of rationale”), “fantastic etiology,” a rhetorical device among the figures of ʿelm-e badiʿ (the science of rhetorical embellishment).

  • HOSSEIN, ANDRÉ

    Iraj Khademi

    As a composer, Hossein was much inspired by traditional Persian music, and most of his works demonstrate this intellectual preoccupation. He knew the tār very well and could be considered one of the great tār players of his time. He began playing this instrument as a child, and later composed several works for it.

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  • HOSSEINI, MANSOUREH

    Hengameh Fouladvand

    (1926-2012), pioneer modernist painter, writer, and gallerist, among the first Iranian artists who incorporated calligraphy in their modern works.

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