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• HOMĀYUN

  Jean During

  (lit. “auspicious”), an important modal system (dastgāh) in traditional Persian music.

• HOMĀYUN PĀDEŠĀH

  Wheeler M. Thackston

  (1508–56), NĀṢER-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD, second Mughal emperor in Kabul and northern India, and the succesor to Bābor.

• HOMMAIRE de HELL, IGNACE XAVIER MORAND

  Jacqueline Calmard-Compas

  French engineer, geographer, traveler (1812-1848). He carried out pioneering scientific research in the Ottoman empire, southern Russia, and Persia

• HOMOSEXUALITY

  Multiple Authors

  OVERVIEW of the entry: i. In Zoroastrianism. ii. In Islamic law. iii. In Persian literature. iv. In modern Persia. See Supplement.  

• HOMOSEXUALITY i. IN ZOROASTRIANISM

  Prods Oktor Skjærvø

  Zoroastrian literature contains discussions of personal relations only in legal contexts and is quite explicit with regard to sins of a sexual nature.

• HOMOSEXUALITY ii. IN ISLAMIC LAW

  E. K. Rowson

  The foundational texts of Islam address, and generally condemn, sexual relations between members of the same sex.

• HOMOSEXUALITY iii. IN PERSIAN LITERATURE

  EIr

  a sharp contrast exists between the treatment of homosexuality in Islamic law and its reflection in Persian literature, particularly poetry (the chief vehicle of Persian literary expression).

• HOMOSEXUALITY iv. IN MODERN IRAN

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• HONAR O MARDOM

  Nassereddin Parvin

  a monthly magazine published by the General Office of Fine Arts in the Ministry of Education, 1957, 1962-79.

• HONARESTĀN-E ʿĀLI-E MUSIQI-E MELLI

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.