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FABLE
Mahmoud and Teresa P. Omidsalar
a kind of story often defined as “an animal tale with a moral"; there is no exact Persian equivalent of the term, but the words afsāna, dāstān, hekāyat, qeṣṣa, and samar are used to refer to such stories.
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FABRITIUS, LUDVIG
Rudi Matthee
or LODEWYCK (b. Brazil, 1648; died Stockholm, 1729), Swedish envoy to the Safavid court.
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN
Multiple Authors
This article will deal with the faculties of Agriculture, Fine Arts, Law and Political Science, Letters and Humanities, and Medicine, which are among the oldest and most important secular institutions of higher education in Persia. Other faculties of the University of Tehran and main faculties of other major universities will be treated under individual UNIVERSITIES.
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN i. Faculty of Agriculture
MOḤAMMAD-ḤASAN MAHDAWĪ ARDABĪLĪ
The program was full time for three years, and the students’ expenses were paid by the government. All graduates received the equivalent of bachelors’s degrees in agricultural engineering.
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN ii. Faculty of Fine Arts
MORTAŻĀ MOMAYYEZ
Like most other faculties of the University of Tehran, the Faculty of Fine Arts was created by integrating already existing institutions.
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN iii. Faculty of Law and Political Science
Ahmad Ashraf
one of the oldest institutions of modern higher education in Persia, founded in 1927 with the merger of the School of Political Science (established in 1899) and the School of Law (established in 1918).
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN iv. Faculty of Letters and Humanities
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
The Faculty of Letters and Humanities (Dāneškada-ye adabīyāt wa ʿolūm-e ensānī), originally named the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy, and Educational Sciences (Dāneškada-ye adabīyāt wa falsafa wa ʿolūm-e tarbīatī), was one of the six faculties of the University of Tehran when it was founded in February 1935.
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FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN v. Faculty of Medicine
YŪNOS KARĀMATĪ and EIr
(Dāneškada-ye pezeškī), the pioneering academic institution of modern medicine in Persia, one of the six main faculties of the new University of Tehran in 1934. It was the successor to the Dār al-fonūn Department of Medicine, established in 1851, which had become the School of Medicine (Madrasa-ye ṭebb) in 1919.
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FADĀʾIĀN-E ḴALQ
Peyman Vahabzadeh
a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group arising from the student movement and the urban middle-class intellectuals and influenced by the Latin American revolutionary discourse, its objective was to instigate, and eventually lead, a popular movement against the Iranian monarchy.
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FĀDŪSBĀN
Cross-Reference
See BĀDŪSPĀN.
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FĀʾEQ ḴĀṢṢA, ABU’L-ḤASAN
C. Edmund Bosworth
(d. Khorasan 999), Turkish eunuch and slave commander of the Samanid army in Transoxania and Khorasan during the closing decades of that dynasty’s power.
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FAḠĀNĪ, BĀBĀ
Cross-Reference
See BĀBĀ FAḠĀNĪ.
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FAGERGREN, CONRAD GUSTAF
Bo Utas
(b. Stockholm, 1818; d. Shiraz, 1879), Swedish physician in Shiraz, 1848-79.
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FAHHĀD, FARĪD-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
David Pingree
the most prolific producer of astronomical tables in the Islamic world. He is credited with a total of six tables, all of which are lost. There are three lists of these tables, given by Moḥammad b. Abū Bakr Fāresī, Šams Monajjem Wābeknavī, and Ḥājī Ḵalīfa.
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FAHLABAḎ
Cross-Reference
See BĀRBAD.
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FAHLAVĪYĀT
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
an appellation given especially to the quatrains and by extension to the poetry in general composed in the old dialects of the Pahla/Fahla regions.
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FAHLĪĀN
Jamšīd Ṣadāqat-Ḵīš
a rural district (dehestān) situated 12 km northwest of Nūrābād in the Mamassanī šahrestān.
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FAHRAJ
Rezazadeh Langarudi
subdistrict (dehestān) and town in the Persian province of Yazd.
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FAḴR-AL-DĪN ĀḎARĪ
Cross-Reference
See under BAHMANID DYNASTY.
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FAḴR-AL-DĪN ASʿAD
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