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  • ḤOSAYN BĀYQARĀ

    Hans R. Roemer

    the common designation for Sultan Abu’l-Ḡāzi Ḥosayn Mirzā b. Manṣur b. Bāyqarā, the last Timurid ruler of major importance in Khorasan (r. 1469-70 and 1470-1506).

  • 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

    (d. 1535), b. ʿAbdi Beg Šāmlu, 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.