Table of Contents
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HEAD GEAR
cross-reference
See CLOTHING.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA
Multiple Authors
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Pre-Islamic period. ii. Medieval period. iii. Qajar period. iv. Pahlavi period.
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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.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA ii. MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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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.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA iv. PAHLAVI PERIOD
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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HEAVEN
Cross-Reference
See ĀSMĀN; ESCHATOLOGY.
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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.
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HECATOMPYLUS
cross-reference
See ŠAHR-E QUMIS.
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HEDĀYAT AL-MOTAʿALLEMIN FI’L-ṬEBB
Jalal Matini
the complete title of the oldest extant treatise on medicine written in Persia, which is also commonly referred to simply as Ketāb-e Hedāyat.