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• ḤAMIDI ŠIRĀZI

  Jafar Moayyad Shirazi

  poet, man of letters, literary scholar and critic, translator, journalist, and university professor (1914-1986).

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• HAMKALĀM

  Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal

  “of the same word, ” a Zoroastrian-Persian priestly technical term.

• ḤAMMĀM-E WAKĪL

  Karāmat-Allāh Afsar

  (bathhouse of the Wakil), a historic monument in Shiraz built by Karim Khan Zand “the Wakil” (r. 1751-79) after 1776.

• HAMMER-PURGSTALL, JOSEPH FREIHERR von

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  prolific Austrian orientalist, among whose many works is the first ever complete translation of the Divān of Ḥāfeẓ into a Western language (1774-1856).

• HĀMUN, DARYĀČA-YE

  Eckart Ehlers, Gherardo Gnoli

  (or simply Hāmun), lit. “lake of the plain, lowland,” a lake covering the deepest part of the Sistān depression and the Sistān watershed.

• HĀMUN, DARYĀČA-YE i. GEOGRAPHY

  Eckart Ehlers

  The Sistān basin is the easternmost endorheic basin in Persia, draining a watershed 350,000 km2.

• HĀMUN, DARYĀČA-YE ii. IN LITERATURE AND MYTHOLOGY

  Gherardo Gnoli

  In the literature and mythology of ancient Persia, Lake Hāmun occupied, along with the Helmand Riiver, a position of particular importance, especially in Zoroastrian eschatology.

• ḤAMZA -NĀMA

  William L. Hanaway, Jr., Frances W. Pritchett

  a popular prose romance transmitted orally and written down at a time unknown.

• ḤAMZA B. ĀḎARAK

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  or Atrak or ʿAbd-Allāh Abu Ḵozayma (d. 828), Kharijite rebel in Sistān and Khorasan during early ʿAbbasid times.

• HAMZA NİGARİ

  Tahsin Yazi

  (Ḥamza Negāri) Ḥāji Mir Ḥamza Efendi b. Mir Pāšā, Sufi and poet from Azerbaijan, who wrote in both Persian and Turkish (d. 1886).

• ḤAMZA-NĀMA i. GENERAL

  William L. Hanaway, Jr.

  The hero of Ḥamza-nāma is Ḥamza b. ʿAbd-al-Moṭṭaleb, whose adventures are thought to be a conflation of stories from eastern Persia about Ḥamza b. ʿAbd-Allāh the Kharijite (d. 797-8).

• ḤAMZA-NĀMA ii. In the Subcontinent

  Frances W. Pritchett

  The Indo-Persian romance tradition, extending from the medieval period to the early 20th century, produced prose works of considerable literary and cultural interest, chief among which were many versions of the Ḥamza romance.

• HANAFITE MAḎHAB

  Merlin Swartz

  a school of Sunni jurisprudence named after Abu Ḥanifa Noʿmān b. Ṯābet (699-767), an early Kufan jurist and theologian of Persian descent.

• HANBALITE MAḎHAB

  Merlin Swartz

  a school of Sunni law and theology named after Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 855) which was founded largely under his influence in Baghdad.

• HANG-E AFRĀSIĀB

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  in the national epic, the cave in which Afrāsiāb, the fugitive king of Turān, spent his last days.

• HĀNIBĀL, ʿALI

  Ali Boloukbashi

  (1891-1966), Russian-born Persian scholar and founder of the first journal of anthropology (majalla-ye mardom-šenāsi) in Persia.

• HĀNSAVI

  S. H. Qasemi

  , Shaikh (b. 1184-5, d. i1260-61), mystic, poet, and author.

• HANWAY, JONAS

  Ernest Tucker

  (1712-86), an English merchant who traveled to Persia and wrote an account of the trip which provides an eyewitness view of northern Iran during Nāder Shah’s last years.

• ḤANẒALA BĀDḠISI

  François de Blois

  one of the earliest (possibly the earliest) Persian poets of whom we have any record.

• HAOMA

  Dieter Taillieu, Mary Boyce

  Avestan name for a plant and its divinity.