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FANĀ ḴOSROW
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FANĀʾĪĀN, Mīrzā FARAJ-ALLĀH JONŪN
Vahid Rafati
b. Loṭf-ʿAlī b. Moḥammad-Reżā (b. Sangsar, 1873), poet.
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FANĀRŪZĪ, ḴᵛĀJA ʿAMĪD ABU’L-FAWĀRES
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See SENDBĀD-NĀMA.
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FANĪ KAŠMĪRĪ
Sharif Husain Qasemi
pen name of Shaikh MOḤAMMAD-MOḤSEN b. Ḥasan KAŠMĪRĪ (d. 1670/71), Indo-Persian scholar and poet.
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FĀNŪS
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lanterns. See ČERĀḠ.
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FAQĪR DEHLAVĪ, MĪR ŠAMS-AL-DĪN
Munibur Rahman
or Maftūn (fl. 18th century), Persian poet from the Indian sub-continent.
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FAQĪR-ALLĀH JALĀLĀBĀDĪ
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FĀRĀB
C. Edmund Bosworth
a small district on the middle Syr Darya in Transoxania, at the confluence of that river with its right-bank tributary, the Arys, which flows down from Esfījāb, and also the name of a small town within it.
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FĀRĀBĪ
Multiple Authors
Muslim philosopher of the 10th century.
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FĀRĀBĪ i. Biography
Dimitri Gutas
No one among Fārābī’s successors and their followers, or even unrelated scholars, undertook to write his full biography.
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FĀRĀBĪ ii. Logic
Deborah L. Black
Many of his writings take the form of commentaries on, or summaries of, the Aristotelian Organon, which, following the tradition of the Alexandrian commentators of late antiquity, included Porphyry’s Isagoge as well as Aristotle’sRhetoric and Poetics.
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FĀRĀBĪ iii. Metaphysics
Thérèse-Anne Druart
His metaphysics scillates between two main projects: (1) a study of what is common to all beings, i.e., being as such and other universal notions such as oneness, and (2) a study of the ultimate causes, i.e., God and other immaterial beings.
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FĀRĀBĪ iv. Fārābī and Greek Philosophy
Dimitri Gutas
Fārābī’s philosophical moorings and direct affiliation lie in the Greek neo-Aristotelian school of Ammonius in Alexandria, in the form in which it survived and was revived after the Islamic conquest among Syriac Christian clerics and intellectuals in the centers of Eastern Christianity in the Fertile Crescent.
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FĀRĀBĪ v. Music
George Sawa
In the history of Middle Eastern music Fārābī remains unequalled as a theorist, but this aspect of his manifold achievements has been obscured by his more widely known writings on philosophy.
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FĀRĀBĪ vi. Political Philosophy
Muhsin Mahdi
The central theme of Fārābī’s political writings is the virtuous regime, the political order whose guiding principle is the realization of human excellence by virtue.
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FARĀH
Daniel Balland
Farāh has retained practically the same name since the first millennium B.C.E. At the end of the first century B.C.E, the “very great city” of Phra in Aria was reckoned as a major stage on the overland route between the Levant and India.
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FARAḤĀBĀD
Wolfram Kleiss
common place name throughout Persia, without any cultural or historical significance. The three best-known locales with this name are a city quarter of Tehran, the remains of a palace complext near Isfahan, and an Abbasid pleasure palace on the Caspian sea.
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FARĀHĀN
Reżā Reżāzāda Langarūdī
a district (baḵš) in Tafreš subprovince (šahrestān) of the Central (Markazī) province.
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FARĀHĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN
Hafez Farmayan
(1847-1913) Persian diplomat and author of a travelogue (safar-nāma) intended to show how a Shiʿite pilgrim could successfully undertake the journey to Mecca. In it one learns much about Arabia, the Ottoman empire, and the Sunnis in general.
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FARĀHĀNĪ, MOḤAMMAD-ṢĀDEQ
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FARĀHĪ, ABŪ NAṢR BADR-al-DĪN MASʿŪD
Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī
or Moḥammad, Maḥmūd; b. Abī Bakr b. Ḥosayn b. Jaʿfar Farāhī (fl. 13th century), poet and litterateur.
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FARĀHRŪD
Daniel Balland
river in southwestern Afghanistan, rising at about 3,300 meters above sea level in the Band-e Bayān, and, after a course of 712 km in a south-western direction, ending in the Hāmūn-e Ṣāberī (Sīstān) at an altitude of 475 m.
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FARAHVAŠI, Bahrām
Mahnaz Moazami
Bahrām Farahvaši was born into a family with a long tradition of literary and scholarly pursuits. His father, ʿAli Moḥammad Farahvaši (1875-1968), was one of the pioneers of education reform in the early 20th century and established modern schools in Tehran, Zanjan, and Azerbaijan.
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FARAJ-E BAʿD AZ ŠEDDAT
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See DEHESTĀNI, ḤOSAYN.
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FARĀLĀVĪ
François de Blois
the conventional reading of the name of an early Persian poet.
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FARĀMARZ
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
son of Iran’s national hero Rostam, and himself a renowned hero of the Iranian national epic whose adventures were very popular, especially during the 10th and 11th centuries.
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FARĀMARZ, ABŪ MANṢŪR
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See ABŪ MANṢŪR FARĀMARZ.
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FARĀMARZ-NĀMA
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
a Persian epic recounting the adventures of the hero Farāmarz.
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FARĀMARZĪ, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
Mohammad Zarnegar
(b. Gačūya, 1897; d. Tehran, 1972), an outspoken journalist, writer, educator, Majles deputy, and poet.
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FARĀMŪŠ-ḴĀNA
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See FREEMASONRY.
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FARĀNAK
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according to the Šāh-nāma, the mother of Ferēdūn; also the name of a wife of Bahrām V Gōr.
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FARANG, FARANGĪ
Forthcoming
Forthcoming online.
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FARANGĪ MAḤALL
Muhammad Wali-ul-Haq Ansari
or FERANGĪ MAḤAL; family of Indian Muslim teachers, Hanafite scholars, and mystics active over the last 300 years.
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FARANGĪS
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
eldest daughter of Afrāsīāb and wife of Sīāvaḵš.
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FARAS-NĀMA
Īraj Afšār
a category of books and manuals dealing with horses and horsemanship. Topics treated in this literary genre include horse-breeding, grazing, dressage, veterinary advice, horseracing and betting, and the art of divination based on the mien and movements of horses.
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FARĀVA
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Parau, a small medieval town in eastern Persia, lying east of the Caspian Sea and just beyond the northern edge of the Kopet-Dag range facing the Kara Kum desert.
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FARDIN, Moḥammad ʿAli
Jamsheed Akrami
Fardin’s 23-year film career blossomed late, after a short stint in the theater, and it suffered an early demise in 1981 when the Islamic Republic of Iran banned him from filmmaking in a wholesale purge of the major entertainers of the pre-revolution era.
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FĀRES
C. Edmund Bosworth
the Arabic term for “rider on a horse, cavalryman,” connected with the verb farasa/farosa “to be knowledgeable about horses, be a skillful horseman” and the noun faras “horse."
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FĀRESĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ
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See ABŪ ʿALĪ FĀRESĪ.
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FĀRESĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD
Gül A. Russell
(d. 1320), the most significant figure in optics after Ebn al-Hayṯam (Alhazen; 965-1040). The two names have been linked due to his critical revision of Ebn al-Hayṯam’s Ketāb al-manāẓer, which represents a watershed in the scientific understanding of light and vision.
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FĀRESĪYĀT
Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī
a literary term used in Arabic literature to refer to poems in Arabic which contain some Persian words or even phrases in their original form, the most notable example being the Fāresīyāt of Abū Nowās.
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FARḠĀNA
C. Edmund Bosworth
valley of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) river extending ca. 300 km between the Farḡāna mountains in the east and the first sharp bend of the river’s course to the north.
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FARḠĀNĪ, AḤMAD
David Pingree
b. Moḥammad b. Kaṯīr (fl. ca. 950 C.E.), Muslim astronomer.
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FARḠĀNĪ, EMĀM-AL-ḤARAMAYN SERĀJ-Al-DĪN ABU’L-MOḤAMMAD ʿALĪ
Sayyāra Mahīnfar
b. ʿOṯmān Ūšī or Ūsī (d. 1173), oṣūlī jurist (faqīh), traditionist, and author.
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FARḠĀNĪ, SAʿĪD-AL-DĪN MOHAMMAD
William C. Chittick
b. Ahmad (d. 1300), Sufi author from the town of Kāsān in Farḡān.
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FARḠĀNĪ, SAYF-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Sayyāra Mahīnfar
thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi of Farḡāna.
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FARHĀD (1)
Heshmat Moayyad
romantic figure in Persian legend and literature, best known from the poetry of Neẓāmī Ganjavī as a rival with the Sasanian king Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 591-628) for the love of the beautiful Armenian princess Šīrīn.
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FARHĀD (2)
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name of a number of Parthian kings. See PHRAATES.
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FARHĀD KHAN QARAMĀNLŪ, ROKN-AL-SALṬANA
Rudi Matthee
military commander of Shah ʿAbbās I, executed at the Shah’s orders in 1598.
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FARHĀD MĪRZĀ MOʿTAMAD-AL-DAWLA
Kambiz Eslami
(1818-1888), Qajar prince-governor and bibliophile. Holding highly conservative religious views, he viewed Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah's reformist vizier as an obliterator of the “foundation of the Muslim šarīʿa,” who was guilty of spreading the word “liberty” among the people.
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