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  • HERAT v. LOCAL HISTORIES

    Jürgen Paul

    Local histories of Herāt belong to three distinct literary genres: the biographical dictionary, the dynastic history, and the guide for pilgrims.

  • HERAT vi. THE HERAT QUESTION

    Abbas Amanat

    From the middle of the 18th century, following Nāder Shah’s assassination in 1747, Herat became the focus of a century-long power struggle and regional rivalry.

  • HERAT vii. THE HERAT FRONTIER IN THE LATTER HALF OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

    Arash Khazeni

    In the latter half of the 19th century, following the settlement of the Khorasan frontier with Persia in 1857, the rulers of Kabul, with British support, sought to make Herat a part of the Afghan state.

  • HERAUS

    D. W. Mac Dowall

    Central Asian clan chief of the Kushans, one of the five constituent tribes of the Yuezhi confederacy in the early first century CE. He struck tetradrachms and obols in relatively good silver.

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  • HERBARIUMS

    cross-reference

    See BOTANICAL STUDIES iii.

  • HĒRBED

    Philip G. Kreyenbroek

    a Zoroastrian priestly title, at present used for a “priest in minor orders,” that is, a man of priestly family who has undergone the initiatory Nāwar ceremony and is qualified to officiate at lower rituals.

  • HĒRBEDESTĀN

    Firoze M. Kotwal

    (school for priests, religious school), a Middle Persian term designating (1) Zoroastrian priestly studies and (2) an Avestan/Pahlavi text found together with the Nērangestān manuscripts.

  • HERBELOT de MOLAINVILLE, BARTHÉLEMY D’

    Moti Gharib Shojania

    (1625-95), one of the first orientalists to produce a systematic survey and alphabetized account of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature with dictionaries for each language.

  • HERBERT, THOMAS

    R. W. Ferrier

    (1606-1682), Sir, author of the first English account of Persia, having accompanied the royal embassy from King Charles I to the Safavid Shah ʿAbbās I in 1626-29.

  • HERBERT, THOMAS (2)

    John Butler

    Herbert traveled to Persia and India as a very junior member of an embassy under Sir Dodmore Cotton sent by King Charles I to Shah Abbas I in 1627 to establish formal trade and diplomatic relations with Persia.

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