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ḤOSAYNI DAŠTAKI ŠIRĀZI
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ḤOSAYNIYA
Jean Calmard
buildings specifically designed to serve as venues for Moḥarram ceremonies commemorating the martyrdom of Ḥosayn b. ʿAli.
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ḤOSAYNIYA-YE MOŠIR
Jean Calmard
a ḥosayniya building in the Sang-e Siāh quarter of Shiraz, famous for its exquisite tile paintings.
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ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN MĀFI
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ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN SARDĀR-E IRAVĀNI
George A. Bournoutian
important governor in the early Qajar period (b. ca. 1742, d. 1831).
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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.
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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).
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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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