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• ḤOJJATIYA

  Mahmoud Sadri

  a Shiʿite religious lay association founded in 1953 by the charismatic cleric Shaikh Maḥmud Ḥalabi to defend Islam against the Bahai missionary activities.

• HOJVIRI, ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALI

  Gerhard Böwering

  B. ʿOṮMĀN B. ʿALI AL-ḠAZNAVI AL-JOLLĀBI (d. ca. 1071-72), author of the Kašf al-maḥjub, the most celebrated early Persian Sufi treatise.

• HOLDICH, THOMAS HUNGERFORD

  Denis Wright

  As head of the Baluchistan Survey Party from 1883, Holdich organized surveys of south Baluchistan and Makran. In 1884 he headed the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission’s survey party; in 1896 he was chief British Commissioner on the Perso-Baluch Boundary Commission.

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• ḤOLWI, JAMĀL-AL-DIN MAḤMUD

  Tahsin Yazi

  biographer of the leaders of the Ḵalwati Sufi order and minor poet (1574-1654).

• HŌM

  cross-reference

  See HAOMA.

• HŌM YAŠT

  W. W. Malandra

  name given to a section of the Avestan Yasna, namely, Y. 9-11.11. It is central to the ritual and is recited prior to the priestly consumption of the parahaoma (Pahl. parāhōm).

• HOMĀM-AL-DIN

  William L. Hanaway and Leonard Lewisohn

  13th-century Persian poet, best known for his ḡazals, which follow those of Saʿdi in style and tone.

• HŌMĀN

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  son of Vēsa, in Iranian traditional history one of the most celebrated heroes of Turān.

• HOMĀY ČEHRZĀD

  Jalil Doostkhah

  according to Iranian traditional history, a Kayānid queen; she was daughter, wife, and successor to the throne of Bahman, son of Esfandiār.

• HOMĀY O HOMĀYUN

  cross-reference

  See ḴᵛĀJU KERMĀNI.