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• FAYYĀŻ LĀHĪJĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ.

• FAYYĀŻ, ʿALĪ-AKBAR MAJĪDĪ

  Jalāl Matīnī

  (b. Mašhad, 1898; d. Mašhad, 1971), scholar and educator.

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• FAYŻ MOḤAMMAD KĀTEB

  R. D. McChesney and A. H. Tarzi

  Afghan court chronicler and secretary to the amir Ḥabīb–Allāh Khan (r. 1901-19).

• FAYŻ-E KĀŠĀNĪ, MOLLĀ MOḤSEN-MOḤAMMAD

  Hamid Algar

  b. Šāh Mortażā b. Šāh Maḥmūd (b. 1598-9, d. 1679), prolific and versatile scholar of the Safavid period, celebrated chiefly for his Sufi inclinations.

• FAYŻĀBĀD

  Daniel Balland

  a toponym of auspicious meaning (“blessed abode”) which enjoys great popularity throughout the Iranian world.

• FAYŻĪ, ABU’L-FAYŻ

  Munibur Rahman

  (b. Agra, 1547; d. Lahore, 1595), Mughal court poet, also known as Fayżī Fayyāżī, who wrote mainly in Persian.

• FAYŻĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM

  Moojan Momen

  (1906-1980), Bahai teacher, missionary, and author.

• FĀŻEL KHAN GARRŪSĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  Īraj Afšār

  (1784-1843), poet, litterateur, and secretary during the reigns of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah (1797-1834) and Moḥammad Shah Qājār (1834-48).

• FĀŻEL MĀZANDARĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ ASAD-ALLĀH

  Moojan Momen

  (b. Bābol, 1881; d. Ḵorramšahr, 1957), Bahai scholar and missionary.

• FĀŻEL TŪNĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN

  Hūšang Etteḥād

  (b. Tūn, 1871; d. Tehran, 1960), scholar and teacher of Islamic philosophy.

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• FAZEL, JAVAD

  Ḥasan Mirʿābedini

  (1914-1961), noted serial writer, and a pioneering figure in simplifying and popularizing religious texts.

• FAŻL NAYRĪZĪ

  David Pingree

  , ABU’L ʿABBĀS b. Ḥātem, mathematician and astronomer (fl. 900 C.E.). His family originated from Nayrīz/Nīrīz, a small town near Shiraz. Almost nothing is known of his personal life. The fact that he

• FAŻL, b. AḤMAD ESFARĀʾENĪ

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  See ESFARĀʾENĪ, FAŻL B. AḤMAD.

• FAŻL, b. Šāḏān NĪŠĀPŪRĪ AZDĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD

  Etan Kohlberg

  (d. 873), Imami traditionalist, theologian, and jurisprudent.

• FAŻL, b. SAHL b. Zādānfarrūḵ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (d. 818), high official of the early ʿAbbasids and vizier to the caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813-33).

• FAŻL-ALLĀH ḤORŪFĪ

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  See ASTARĀBĀDĪ, FAŻLALLĀH.

• FAŻL-ALLĀH NŪRĪ, SHAIKH

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  See NŪRĪ, FAŻL-ALLĀH.

• FAŻLĪ NAMANGĀNĪ, ʿABD-AL-KARĪM

  Michael Zand

  (d. after 1822), Central Asian bilingual poet (Persian and Chaghatay), taḏkera compiler, and historian.

• FAŻLĪ, MEḤMED

  Tahsın Yazici

  (b. Istanbul; d. Kütahya, 1563), Moḥammad or ʿAlī ÇAĞDAŞLAN; Turkish poet, known also as Qara Fażlī.

• FAŻLŪYA DYNASTY

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  See ĀL-E FAŻLŪYA.