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• ḤOSAYN KARBALĀʾI

  Leonard Lewisohn

  TABRIZI BĀBĀ-FARAJI, popularly known as Ebn Karbalāʾi, a major Persian historian of Sufis and Sufism of 16th-century Persia and a poet (d. 1589).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN ĀJUDĀN-BĀŠI

  Ḥ. Maḥbubi Ardakāni

  probably the most important officer to hold the military rank of adjudant-en-chef (see ĀJŪDĀN-BĀŠI) during the Qajar period (d. ca.1866-67).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN KAMĀNČAKAŠ

  Ameneh Youssefzadeh

  a famous musician and a master of the kamānča, the chief traditional Persian string instrument played with a bow (d. 1934).

• ḤOSAYN KHAN MOQADDAM MARĀḠAʾI

  cross-reference

  See ĀJUDĀN-BĀŠI; NEẒĀM-AL-DAWLA.

• ḤOSAYN KHAN ŠĀMLU

  Roger M. Savory

  , b. ʿAbdi Beg Šāmlu (d. 1535), nephew of Shah Esmāʿil I, Safavid governor of Herat.

• ḤOSAYN SHAH ARḠUN

  cross-reference

  See ARGHUNID DYNASTY OF SIND in Supplement.

• ḤOSAYN-E KORD-E ŠABESTARI

  Ulrich Marzolph

  Persian popular romance narrating the exploits of a Kurdish warrior from Šabestar known solely by the name of Ḥosayn.

• ḤOSAYNI

  Bruno Nettl

  a guša (significant melodic unit) of the canonic repertory of Persian classical music (radif).

• ḤOSAYNI BALḴI

  ʿAbd-al-ḥayy Ḥabibi

  13th-century translator into Persian of Wāʿeẓ-e Balḵi’s no longer extant Arabic work, the Fażāʾel-e Balḵ.

• ḤOSAYNI DAŠTAKI ŠIRĀZI

  cross-reference

  See DAŠTAKI, AMIR JAMĀL-AL-DIN.