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• HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE

  Jürgen Paul

  in Persia and Central Asia. Hagiographic literature may be defined broadly as a biographical genre devoted to individuals enjoying an exclusive religious status as “saints” or “holy men” in the eyes of the authors.

• HAGMATĀNA

  Cross-Reference

  See HAMADĀN.

• HAIFA

  Hossein Amanat

  a port city in northwestern Israel and the site of a number of significant Bahai holy places, administrative buildings, and historical monuments.

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• HAIKU

  Eva Lucie Witte

  a Japanese poetic form adopted and employed by Iranian poets since the second half of the 20th century.

• ḤAIM, MOREH ḤAḴĀM

  Amnon Netzer

  eminent Jewish scholar (b. Tehran, 1872; d. Tehran, 1942).

• ḤAIM, ŠEMUʾEL

  Amnon Netzer

  generally known as Monsieur Ḥaim or Mister Ḥaim, journalist and Majles deputy (b. Kermānšāh, 1891; executed Tehran, Dec. 15, 1931).

• ḤAIM, SOLAYMĀN

  Amnon Netzer

  twentieth-century lexicographer, became known as one of the first serious lexicographers to prepare Persian-language dictionaries into and from English, French and Hebrew (1886-1970).

• HAJAR

  Cross-Reference

  See BAHRAIN.

• HAJĀR

  cross-reference

  See ŠARAFKANDI, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN.

• ḤĀJEB

  C. Edmund Bosworth, Rudi Matthee

  administrative and then military office in the pre-modern Iranian world.