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  • FARZĀN, Sayyed Moḥammad

    EIr

    (b. near Birjand, 1894; d. Bābolsar, 1970), an eminent scholar of classical literature.

  • FASĀ

    Multiple Authors

    a sub-province and a city in Fārs.

  • FASĀ i. Geography and History

    MĪNŪ YŪSOFNEŽĀD and JUDITH LERNER

    The sub-province (šahrestān) of Fasā, with an area of ca. 3,820 km2, is bounded to the north by the šahrestāns of Eṣṭahbān/Estahbān and Shiraz, to the east by Eṣṭahbān and Dārāb, to the south by Dārāb and Jahrom, and to the west by Jahrom and Shiraz. 

  • FASĀ ii. Tall-e Żaḥḥāk

    JOHN F. HANSMAN

    a tell or artificial mound, lying within a still broader archeological zone, built up by successive layers of human occupation from prehistoric to medieval times; it is located 130 km south of Shiraz and 3 km southeast of Fasā.

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  • FASĀʾĪ, ḤĀJJ MĪRZĀ ḤASAN ḤOSAYNĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See FĀRS-NĀMA-YE NĀṢERĪ.

  • FAṢD

    Cross-Reference

    See BLOODLETTING.

  • FASIH, Esma’il

    Ali Ferdowsi

    Fasih left Iran in 1956, and eventually ended up in Montana State College in Bozeman, Montana. Beginning with his junior year at the college, he transferred to the University of Montana in Missoula where he earned a BS in Chemistry and a BA in English.

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  • FAṢĪḤĪ HERAVĪ, MĪRZĀ FAṢĪḤ-AL-DĪN

    ḎABĪḤ-ĀLLĀH ṢAFĀ

    b. Abu’l-Makārem b. Mawlānā Mīrjān Anṣārī (1579-1639), poet of the 11th/17th century.

  • FASMER, RICHARD RICHARDOVICH

    Anatol Ivanov

    or VASMER (1858-1938), eminent Russian numismatist.

  • FASTING

    Denise Soufi

    in Persia. Both individually and communally, fasting is typically a religious exercise—employed by devotees as means of supplication to the will of God, preparation for rites of devotion, worship of divinity, purification of the body so that spiritual issues can be better comprehended, penitence for transgressions against religious codes, and mourning for deceased persons.  OVERVIEW of entry: i. Among Zoroastrians, Manicheans, and Bahais. ii. In Sunni and Shiʿite Islam.