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  • ḤOSAYNI DAŠTAKI ŠIRĀZI

    cross-reference

    See DAŠTAKI, AMIR JAMĀL-AL-DIN.

  • ḤOSAYNIYA

    Jean Calmard

    buildings specifically designed to serve as venues for Moḥarram ceremonies commemorating the martyrdom of Ḥosayn b. ʿAli.

  • ḤOSAYNIYA-YE MOŠIR

    Jean Calmard

    a ḥosayniya building in the Sang-e Siāh quarter of Shiraz, famous for its exquisite tile paintings.

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN MĀFI

    Cross-Reference

    See NEẒĀM-AL-SALṬANA MĀFI, ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN.

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN SARDĀR-E IRAVĀNI

    George A. Bournoutian

    important governor in the early Qajar period (b. ca. 1742, d. 1831).

  • ḤOSAYNQOLI, ĀQĀ

    Ameneh Youssefzadeh

    noted tār player and teacher (1853-1916). His performances were considered both technically brilliant and artistically exquisite. The regularity and force of the down and up strokes (rāst and čap) of his plectrum were much admired. He used a five-string tār and disapproved of the addition of the sixth string.

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  • ḤOSN O DEL

    Ḏabiḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

    an allegorical work by Fattāḥi Nišāburi (1404-46), one of the best examples of rhyming prose in the Timurid period.

  • ḤOSN-E TAʿLIL

    Natalia Chalisova

    (lit. “beauty of rationale”), “fantastic etiology,” a rhetorical device among the figures of ʿelm-e badiʿ (the science of rhetorical embellishment).

  • HOSSEIN, ANDRÉ

    Iraj Khademi

    As a composer, Hossein was much inspired by traditional Persian music, and most of his works demonstrate this intellectual preoccupation. He knew the tār very well and could be considered one of the great tār players of his time. He began playing this instrument as a child, and later composed several works for it.

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  • HOSSEINI, MANSOUREH

    Hengameh Fouladvand

    (1926-2012), pioneer modernist painter, writer, and gallerist, among the first Iranian artists who incorporated calligraphy in their modern works.

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