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• ḤĀJEB i. IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PERIOD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  The office of ḥājeb, implying military command, appears in the Iranian world with the Samanids, where it probably grew out of the amir’s domestic household.

• ḤĀJEB ii. IN THE SAFAVID AND QAJAR PERIODS

  Rudi Matthee

  In the Safavid period the ḥājeb, the major domo or master of ceremony, was called the išik-āqāsi-bāši, literally “head of the masters of the threshold.”

• ḤĀJI ʿALILU

  Pierre Oberling

  a Turkic tribe of Persian Azerbaijan. Its main branch lives north of Varzaqān and Ahar, in Qarājadāḡ (Arasbārān); another branch dwells in the vicinity of Marāḡa.

• ḤĀJI ĀQĀ

  F. Farzaneh

  a satirical novella by Ṣādeq Hedāyat, published in the journal Soḵan in 1945, followed by a second edition in 1952.

• ḤĀJI BĀBĀ

  Nasseredin Parvin

  a satirical and politically critical newspaper, published in Tehran, 1949-53.

• ḤĀJI BĀBĀ AFŠĀR

  Anna Vanzan

  son of an officer in the army of the Crown Prince ʿAbbās Mirzā and one of the first Persian students sent to study in Europe (1811).

• ḤĀJI BĀBĀ OF EṢFAHĀN

  cross-reference

  See HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN.

• ḤĀJI FIRUZ

  Mahmoud Omidsalar

  the most famous among the traditional folk entertainers, who appears in the Persian streets in the days preceding Nowruz. The Ḥāji Firuz entertains passers-by by singing traditional songs and dancing and playing his tambourine for a few coins. He rarely knocks on a door, but begins his performance as soon as the door is opened.

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• ḤĀJI MIRZĀ ĀQĀSI

  Cross-Reference

  grand vizier of Moḥammad Shah Qāǰār (r. 1250-64/1834-48) between 1251-64/1835-48. See ĀQĀSI, ḤĀJI MIRZĀ.

• ḤĀJI PIĀDA

  cross-reference

  Mosque of. See ISFAHAN x, MONUMENTS.