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• FARĪDAN

  Mīnū Yūsofnežād

  a county (šahrestān) located at the foot of the Zagros mountains in the western part of Isfahan province, bordered on the north by Ḵᵛānsār, on the northwest by Alīgūdarz (in Lorestān province), on the west by the county of Farīdūn-æahr, on the east by Najafābād, and on the south by Šahr-e Kord and Fārsān.

• FARĪDŪN

  Cross-Reference

  See FERĒDŪN.

• FARIGHUNIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN.

• FARĪḠŪNIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN.

• FARĪZANDĪ

  Cross-reference

  See CENTRAL DIALECTS; see also NAṬANZĪ.

• FARḴĀR

  Erwin F. Grötzbach

  river, valley, and administrative district (woloswālī), in Taḵār province, northeastern Afghanistan.

• FARMĀN

  Bert G. Fragner

  “decree, command, order, judgement.” The term often denotes a royal or governmental decree, that is a public and legislative document promulgated in the name of the ruler or another person  holding elements of sovereignty.

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• FARMĀNFARMĀ

  Ahmad Ashraf

  lit. “giver of an order,” i.e., ruler, commander; an epithet with three usages in the Safavid and Qajar periods.

• FARMĀNFARMĀ, ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN MĪRZĀ

  Cyrus Mir and EIr

  (1858-1939), Qajar prince-governor, military commander, skillful politician, head of various ministries, and prime minister. He managed to sail successfully the stormy sea of Persian politics for several decades while the entire social and political landscape was undergoing dramatic change.

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• FARMĀNFARMĀ, FEREYDŪN MĪRZĀ

  ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN NAVĀʾĪ

  (d. Mašhad, 1854), fifth son of the Qajar prince ʿAbbās Mīrzā and elder brother of Solṭān Morād Mīrzā Ḥosām-al-Salṭana.