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ḤAMĀVAND
Pierre Oberling
(from MOḤAMMADVAND), a Kurdish tribe of northeastern Iraq which has been described as “the most celebrated fighting tribe of southern Kurdistan.”
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ḤAMAYD
Pierre Oberling
an Arab tribe of Ḵuzestān. In the early 1900s, it dwelled mostly in the boluk of Ḥamayd, on the left bank of the Kārun river.
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HAMĀZŌR
Mary Boyce and F. M. Kotwal
a Zoroastrian Persian adjective “of the same strength” which occurs only in a formula of greeting, in ritual uses accompanied by the giving of hands.
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ḤAMD-ALLĀH MOSTAWFI
Charles Melville
historian and geographer of the Il-khanid period (1281-1344), author of Tāriḵ-e gozida, Ẓafar-nāma, and Nozhat al-qolub.
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ḤAMDĀN QARMAṬ
Wilferd Madelung
b. al-Ašʿaṯ (d. 933), Ismaʿili dāʿi and founder of the Ismaʿili movement in Iraq.
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HAMDARD ISLAMICUS
Ansar Zahid Khan
English-language quarterly for Islamic Studies, founded in Pakistan in 1978. Published by the Hamdard Foundation of Pakistan.
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ḤĀMED BAL-ḴEŻR AL-ḴOJANDI
David Pingree
ABU MAḤMUD, mathematician and astronomer of the 10th century. His nesba suggests that he originated from Ḵojand in Ferḡāna.
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ḤĀMEDI EṢFAHĀNI
Tahsin Yazici
(or Ḥāmedi ʿAjam), a poet of Persian origin (1439-ca. 1485) at the court of the Ottoman Sultan Moḥammad Fāteḥ (Mehmed the Conquerer).
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HAMĒSTAGĀN
Philippe Gignoux
a word of uncertain etymology, used in Pahlavi literature to designate the intermediate stage between paradise and hell.
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HAMGAR, MAJD-AL-DIN
Ḏabiḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
(1210-1287), MAJD-AL-DIN B. AḤMAD, known also as Ebn-e Hamgar (hamgar means “weaver”), an important poet of the 13th century.