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HUNNIC COINAGE
Michael Alram
coins struck from the late fourth to the early eighth century by successive Central Asian invaders (so-called Iranian Huns) of northeastern Iran and northwestern India. It must be emphasized that our knowledge of these Central Asian nomads is, to a certain extent, still vague; and the research on their history is controversial.
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HUNS
Martin Schottky
collective term for horsemen of various origins leading a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle, thought to have descended from the Hsiung-nu, a nomadic people first mentioned in Chinese sources in 318 BCE.
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HUNTING IN IRAN
Multiple Authors
Persian has two terms for hunting, naḵjīr and šekār, both of which have spread beyond Iranian languages.
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HUNTING IN IRAN i. In the pre-Islamic Period
A. Shapur Shahbazi
Persian has two terms for hunting, naḵjīr and šekār, both of which have spread beyond Iranian languages. i. In the pre-Islamic Period.
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HUNTING IN IRAN ii. In the Islamic Period
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HUNTINGTON, ELLSWORTH
Ursula Sims-Williams
American geographer (1876-1947). In Central Asia ihe collected extensive data and acquired several manuscripts and wooden documents in Kharoṣṭhī, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Khotanese.
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HUR
Nassereddin Parvin
name of a newspaper (1943-45) and a bilingual (Persian and Armenian) monthly journal (1971-74).
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HÜSING, GEORG
Rüdiger Schmitt
versatile German scholar, whose fields included Old Iranian and Elamite studies (1869-1930).
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HUŠT
Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal
Zoroastrian-Persian term for the area (in known practice a town-quarter, a village, or a group of villages) assigned to a priest.
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HUŠYĀR ŠIRĀZI
DARYOUSH ASHOURI
Upon his return to Persia with his German wife, Sirazi was employed as professor in the newly established University of Tehran. As a devoted and enthusiastic educator and author, his life, until his early death, was spent on energetically teaching his students and on introducing certain texts of German literature to Persian readers.
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