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• HAŽIR, ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN

  Fakhreddin Azimi

  (1895-1949), Minister, Prime Minister, Court Minister. Hažir’s assassination was primarily a result of the religio-political sentiments mobilized against him. Such sentiments were accentuated by his high-profile royalism, his identification with the least popular policies and conduct of the court and the government, particularly the rigging of elections, and his image as a close ally of the British.

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• HAZL

  cross-reference

  See HUMOR.

• HEAD GEAR

  cross-reference

  See CLOTHING.

• HEALTH IN PERSIA

  Philippe Gignoux, Amir Arsalan Afkhami

  OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Pre-Islamic period. ii. Medieval period. iii. Qajar period. iv. Pahlavi period.

• HEALTH IN PERSIA i. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD

  Philippe Gignoux

  Health and medicine are clearly defined in Pahlavi literature in the philosophical and moral tradition already taught by the fifth-century BCE Greek “father of medicine,” Hippocrates.

• HEALTH IN PERSIA ii. MEDIEVAL PERIOD

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• HEALTH IN PERSIA iii. QAJAR PERIOD

  Amir Arsalan Afkhami

  Under the Qajars a centralized public health policy was introduced for the first time in Persia.

• HEALTH IN PERSIA iv. PAHLAVI PERIOD

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• HEAVEN

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀSMĀN; ESCHATOLOGY.

• HECATAEUS OF MILETUS

  Joseph Wiesehöfer

  a Greek author from the city of Miletus in Asia Minor (fl. between 560 and 418 BCE), author of a geographical survey of the regions and the peoples in the Achaemenid empire.