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HAFTVĀD
A. Shapur Shahbazi
(Haftwād), the hero of a legend associated with the rise of the Sasanian Ardašir I (r. 224-39). The Šāh-nāma gives his “strange story” (dāstān-e šegeft).
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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.
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HAGMATĀNA
Cross-Reference
See HAMADĀN.
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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. Bahais consider it their most sacred location after the shrine of Mirzā Ḥosayn-ʿAli Nuri Bahāʾ-Allāh, the prophet of the Bahai faith, situated across the bay in nearby ʿAkkā.
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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.
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ḤAIM, MOREH ḤAḴĀM
Amnon Netzer
eminent Jewish scholar (b. Tehran, 1872; d. Tehran, 1942).
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ḤAIM, ŠEMUʾEL
Amnon Netzer
generally known as Monsieur Ḥaim or Mister Ḥaim, journalist and Majles deputy (b. Kermānšāh, 1891; executed Tehran, Dec. 15, 1931).
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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).
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HAJAR
Cross-Reference
See BAHRAIN.
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HAJĀR
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