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FENNEL
Hūšang Aʿlam
the aromatic sweetish potherb and medicinal plant Foeniculum vulgare Mill. (= Anethum foeniculum L., etc.; fam. Umbelliferae).
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FEQH
Norman Calder
lit. "jurisprudence"; term used to designate the processes of exposition, analysis, and argument which constitute human effort to express God’s law (šarīʿa).
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FERDAWS AL-MORŠEDĪYA FĪ ASRĀR AL-ṢAMADĪYA
Īraj Afšār
a major hagiography of Abū Esḥāq Kāzarūnī (963-1033), a famous Sufi and founder of a selsela variously referred to as Kāzarūnīya, Esḥāqīya, or Moršedīya.
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FERDOWS
Baqer Parham
šahrestān in Khorasan consisting of three administrative districts: the city of Ferdows and its immediate suburbs, Bošrūya and Sarāyān.
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FERDOWSĪ MAGAZINE
Esmail Nooriala
the name of two periodicals, a bi-monthly and a weekly magazine published in Tehran.
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FERDOWSI, ABU'L-QĀSEM
Multiple Authors
(940-1019 or 1025), one of the greatest epic poets and author of the Šāh-nāma, the national epic of Persia.
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FERDOWSI, ABU'L-QĀSEM i. Life
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
Apart from his patronymic (konya), Abu’l-Qāsem, and his pen name (taḵallosá), Ferdowsī, nothing is known with any certainty about his names or the identity of his family.
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FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM ii. Hajw-nāma
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
Hajw-nāma is the title of a verse lampoon of Sultan Maḥmūd of Ḡazna attributed to Ferdowsī. According to Neẓāmī ʿArūżī, after Ferdowsī presented his Šāh-nāma, the sultan used the pretext of the poet’s alleged Muʿtazilite and Shiʿite orientation to give him only twenty thousand dirhams as the reward for the epic.
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FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM iii. MAUSOLEUM
A. Shahpur Shahbazi
The rise of nationalism in Persia early this century motivated scholars and dignitaries to urge the government to build a suitable mausoleum for the poet who had done so much to preserve Iranian identity and history.
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FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM iv. MILLENARY CELEBRATION
A. Shahpur Shahbazi
Already in 1922 Moḥammad-Taqī Bahār, the most influential poet of the time and a politician-journalist, urged Reżā Khan (later Reżā Shah), who had recently seized power, to prove his asserted nationalism by celebrating Ferdowsī.
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FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM v. HOMAGES TO FERDOWSI
EIr
Ever since the appearance of the Šāh-nāma, Ferdowsī has been held in high esteem, and many poets have referred to him and his work, the best known being Saʿdī’s tribute in the Būstān to “Ferdowsī-ye pāk-zād.”
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FERİDUN AḤMED BEG, ʿABD-AL-QĀDER
Rudolf Vesel
or FEREYDŪN AḤMAD BAYG (d. 1583), Ottoman secretary, administrator, head of the chancery, and author.
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FERĒDŪN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
Iranian mythic hero.
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FEREŠTA
Cross-Reference
angels in Islam and Persian folklore. See Supplement, ANGELS.
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FEREŠTA, MOḤAMMAD-QĀSEM
Cross-Reference
See FEREŠTA, TĀRĪḴ-E.
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FEREŠTA,TĀRĪḴ-E
Gavin R. G. Hambly
popular title of Golšan-e ebrāhīmī, a general history of Muslim India by Moḥammad-Qāsem Hendušāh Astarābādī (b. Astarābād ca. 1570), the celebrated historian of the Deccan known by the pen name (taḵalloṣ) of Ferešta.
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FEREYDŪN
Cross-reference
(Faridun, Fereydoun, Fereydoon) Iranian mythic hero. See FERĒDŪN.
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FERŌD
Cross-Reference
See FORŪD.
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FERQA-YE DEMOKRĀT-E ĀḎARBĀYJĀN
Forthcoming
Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; the dominant political party in Azarbayjan during the Pīšavarī period. See Supplement.
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FERRIER, JOSEPH PHILIPPE
Jacqueline Calmard-Compas
(1811-1886), French soldier in the Persian service (1839-42, 1846-50).