Hira 108 Humam Hira Singh, Lr*; a Sikh Chief and minister of Ma- haraja Dah'p Singh of Lahor. He was murdered with many others about the beginning of January, 1845. HirpaldeO, J^.i^^ij^} the son-in-law of Kamdeo, Eaja of Deogir, who by the assistance of the other rajas of the Dakhan, had recovered his country from the Musalmans, but Mubarik Shah, the son of Ala-uddin Khilji, in the second year of his reign, 1318 A. D., 718 A. H., marched towards the Dakhan, took Hirpaldeo prisoner, flayed him alive, and hung his body at the gate of Deogir which is now called Daulatabad. Hisam-bin-Jamil, d'. surname of Abu Sahl-al-Baghdadi, who passed for one of the best tradi- tionists of Musalmanism. He died in 722 A. D., 104 A.H. Hissan, (i-'^ w'^'^^j the son of Sabit was a poet and companion of Muhammad. He is the author of a Diwan in Arabic. When Muhammad overcame his enemies at the battle of Khandak, Hissan wrote a few verses on that occasion ; the prophet was so much delighted, that he gave him Shirin the sister of Maria Kabti, for wife. Hissan-al-Hind, that is, the Hissan of India, a title which Mir Gulam 'All Azad assumed. Holkar, vide Mulhar Eao I. Hornaisdas, vide Hmmuz. Hoshang, second king of the first or Pishdadian cl;Tiasty of Persia, was the son of Sayamak, and grandson of Kyomurs whom he succeeded. He reigned 40 years and was succeeded by his son Tahmurs, commonly called Deoband, or the Magician binder, a title he derived from the success with which he warred against the enemies of his family. Hoshang Shah, » ^-^ k-^^*, (formerly called Alp Khan) was the first Muhammadan king of Malwa, and the son of Dilawar Khan Ghori who was governor of that place from the time of Muhammad Shah, son of Ffroz Shah Tughlak, king of Dehlf. After his father's death, which happened about the year 1405 A. D., 808 A. H., taking advantage of the times, he became entii-ely independent and assumed the title of Sultan Hoshang Shah. He reigned 30 lunar years, and died on the 17th July, 1434 A. D., 9th Zil-hijja, 837 A. H. He was bm-ied in a stone vault, and a splendid mausoleum of white marble was built over it which is still to be seen at Mando. The date of his death is to be found in the three last words of a dis- tich translated thus by General Briggs. When death had sealed the glorious Hoshang's fate, And he prepared to tread on Lethe's shore, I asked a poet to record the date, Who briefly said, " Shah Hoshang is no more." He was succeeded by his son Sultan Muhammad Shah, who was poisoned after a reign of one year and nine months by Mahmud Khan (the son of his Wazir), who took the title of Mahmud Shah and ascended the throne of Malwa on Tuesday the 15th of May, 1436 A. D., 29th Shawwal, 839 A. H. List of the kings of Malwa, whose capitals were Lhdr, Ifando or Shddidbdd. Dilawar Khan Ghori, governor. Hoshang Shah Ghori. Muhammad Shah Ghori (also called Ghazni Khan). Mahmud Shah Khiljf. Sultan Ghayas-uddin Khilji. Sultan Nasir-uddin Khilji. Sultan Mahmud II, the last of the Khiljis. In his time Malwa was incorporated with the kingdom of Gujrat by Bahadur Shah, Hoshdar Ehan, a title of Hidaet-ullah Khan, the son of Iradat Khan Wazah. He was honoured with this title by the emperor Farrukh-siyar, and after his father's death with that of Iradat Khan and the Faivjdari of Duhipereya in the province of Malwa. In the sixth year of Muhammad Shah, 1724 A. D., 1136 A. H., he atten- ded Nizam-ul-Mulk 'Asaf Jah to the Dakhan, and after the victory over Mubariz Khan, was appointed Diwan of the Dakhan with the rank of 4000. He was afterwards ap- pointed governor of Kulburga in the Dakhan and died in the year 1744 A. D., 1157 A. H. He had many sons, most of whom died in his lifetime. His eldest surviving son, Hafez Khan, succeeded him in the government of Kulbarga which he held at the time. Shahnawaz Khan wrote the " Masir-ul-Umra," or Biography of Nobility. Hoshmand Begam, <>^*^jit>^ daughter of Sultan Khusro, married to Prince Hushang, the son of prince Danial in the year 1035 A. H. Hujjat, poetical name of Nasir Khusro, which see. Hujjat-ul-Islam, r^'"^' a title of Muhammad Ghazzalf, a celebrated doctor of the Musalman law, vide Ghazzali. Huma, poetical name of Sayyad Imtiyaz Khan, a son of Mo'tmid Khan, and a brother of Sayyad Ahmad, whose takhallus was Zamir. He is the author of a Diwan. Humai, Queen, iS^> was the daughter of Bahman, who is also called Ardisher Darazdast (Artaxerxes Longima- nus of the Greeks). She succeeded her father as queen of Persia, in the fourth century before Christ. She built the city called Simrah, which the author of the " Labb Tawarikh" says, bore also the name of Simirem, and is the same which is at this day called Jarbadakan. The Persian authors state, that when she ascended the throne, she was pregnant by her own father. Shame led her to conceal this circumstance : and the child, of which she was delivered, was given over to a niurse to be put to death. The life of the child, however, was miraculously preserved ; and the unnatural mother first recognised her son, when his fortune and valour had advanced him to the rank of a victorious general in her army. Humai immediately resigned the crown to him, and retired to a private life after she had reigned 32 years. Her son reigned about 12 years, and is called by the Persians Darti or Darab I. Hxunam, Hakim, j*^-*-* i*):^} brother of Hakim Abu'l Fatha Gflani, a well educated and learned man in the service of the emperor Akbar. He was sent by that mon- arch on an embassy, in company with Sayyad Sadr Ja- han, to Abdullah Khan Uzbak, ruler of Khurasan, about the year 1589 A. D., 997 A. H. He died in 1595 A. D., 1004 A. H., and left two sons, Hakim Sadik and Hakim Khushhal. Humam, poetical name of Kamal-uddin Muhammad bin- Abdul- Wahhab, styled by Arabshah, " One of the most illustrious doctors of the member of the Sadat," that is to say, of the race of Ali. He lived in the time of Amir Taimur (Tamerlane) and died in 1457 A. D., 861 A. H. He is author of a Commentary on the Hidaya. His pro- per name is Kamdl-uddin Muhammad-al-Siwasi', which see. Humam Tabrezi, Khwaja, c£>^^ (•'^^ a celebra- ted Persian poet of Tauris or Tabrez, and author of a collection of Kubais or quatrain verses called " Kubayat Mir Humam." He was a cotemporary and rival wit of Shaikh Sa'di. Meeting one day in a bath, Humam, ob- serving Sa'di to be very bold, presented to him a bason with the bottom upwards; asked him, "Why do the
