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  • ḤĀJI PIĀDA

    cross-reference

    Mosque of. See ISFAHAN x, MONUMENTS.

  • ḤĀJI PIRZĀDA

    Anna Vanzan

    (d. 1904), Moḥammad ʿAli Nāʾini, Persian sufi and traveler, whose diary follows the convention of the Qajar safar-nāmas in its description of the wonders seen abroad; he expresses a sincere apprehension for those Iranians abroad whom he felt had forgotten their culture and religion.

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  • ḤĀJI VĀŠANGTON

    Hossein Kamaly

    In his dispatches to Persia Ḥāji Vāšangton presented information about the American political system and society. He openly admired the Americans’ disdain for Europeans and regarded Americans as “alert, intelligent, learned, polite, and wealthy.” He stressed that all government dignitaries were “servants of the people.” 

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  • HAJIABAD

    Philippe Gignoux, EIr

    (Ḥājiābād), site of bilingual inscription of Šāpur I on the wall of a cave near Persepolis. OVERVIEW of the entry: i. The Inscriptions. ii. The Texts.

  • HAJIABAD i. INSCRIPTIONS

    Philippe Gignoux

    The Hajiabad inscriptions in Parthian and Middle Persian were discovered in 1818 in a grotto a few kilometers north of Persepolis. This text describes a feat of archery by King Šāpūr I performed in the presence of kings and princes, of the grandees and the nobles.

  • HAJIABAD ii. THE TEXTS

    EIr

    “This (is) the bowshot of me, the Mazda-worshipping god Shapur, king of kings of Eran and Non-Eran ..."

  • ḤĀJIĀNI

    Bruno Nettl

    a guša or subdivision of a mode in the canonic repertory (radif) of Persian classical music.

  • HAJJ

    cross-reference

    See PILGRIMAGE, forthcoming online.

  • ḤĀJJ SAYYĀḤ

    Ali Ferdowsi

    (ca. 1836-1925), constitutionalist and human rights activist who pursued democratic political reforms in Persia; the first modern Persian to tour the world, the first to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, wrote the first modernist Persian book of travels and the first modern prison notebook.

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  • HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN

    Abbas Amanat

    hero of The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier (3 vols., London, 1824), the most popular Oriental novel in the English language and a highly influential stereotype of the so-called “Persian national character” in modern times. 

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