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ḤOSĀM-AL-DIN ČALABI
Mohammad Estelami
(d. 1284), ḤASAN B. MOḤAMMAD b. Ḥasan, Ebn Aḵi Tork, leading disciple and first successor of Jalāl-al-Din Rumi.
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HŌŠANG
A. Shapur Shahbazi
called Pēšdād, an early hero-king in Iranian tradition, father of the Iranians and founder of the Pēšdādian dynasty.
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HŌŠANG JĀMĀSP
Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal
a distinguished Parsi scholar-priest (1833-1908).
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ḤOSAYN B. ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA
cross-reference
See JALĀYERIDS.
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ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI
Multiple Authors
Hosayn b. Ali is the second surviving grandson of the Prophet Moḥammad through his daughter Fāṭema and the third Imam of the Shiʿites after his father and his elder brother Ḥasan.
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ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI i. LIFE AND SIGNIFICANCE IN SHIʿISM
Wilferd Madelung
In contrast to the pacifist and conciliatory character of his elder brother, Ḥosayn inherited his father’s fighting spirit and intense family pride, although he did not acquire his military prowess and experience.
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ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI ii. IN POPULAR SHIʿISM
Jean Calmard
Legendary accounts about Ḥosayn and his martyrdom were from the outset influenced by his status as a Shiʿite Imam.
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ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI iii. THE PASSION OF ḤOSAYN
Peter Chelkowski
The taʿzia (literally “mourning”) is a dramatic form which Shiʿite Muslims in Persia have created to commemorate the tragedy of Ḥosayn ebn ʿAli, and thus it is comparable to the Christian passion play. See also TA'ZIA.
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ḤOSAYN B. OVAYS
cross-reference
See JALAYERIDS.
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ḤOSAYN B. RUḤ
Said Amir Arjomand
(d. 938), SHAIKH ABU’L-QĀSEM ḤOSAYN B. RUḤ B. ABI BAḤR NOWBAḴTI, third of the four “special vicegerents” (nowwab-e ḵāṣṣa) of the Hidden Imam.