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FOOTBALL
Houchang Chehabi
(soccer). The game of football was introduced to Persia in the first two decades of the 20th century by British residents and American missionaries.
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FOQAHA
Cross-Reference
plural of faqih “Islamic jurist.” See FEQH.
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FOQQĀʿ
Sayyed Mohammad Dabirsiaghi
Early dictionaries describe foqqāʿ as a kind of barley wine or beer, but the semantic range later expanded to include juices from dried raisins, fruits, honey, and other ingredients.Both Persian and Arabic literature abound with references to foqqāʿ.
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FORĀT
Cross-reference
See EUPHRATES.
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FORĀT B. EBRĀHĪM
Meir M. Bar-Asher
Shiʿite(most probably Imami) Koran commentator and Hadith scholar. The dates of his birth and death are unknown, but the time he flourished can be estimated by the dates of the scholars whom he quoted or who transmitted Hadith on his authority.
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FORĀT MAYSĀN
Cross-reference
See BAHMAN ARDAŠĪR.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Willem Floor
administration and ministry of foreign affairs.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Cross-reference
See ECONOMY.
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FOREIGN POLICY
Cross-Reference
See FOREIGN AFFAIRS; ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS; ANGLO-PERSIAN AGREEMENT of 1919; ANGLO-PERSIAN WAR; ANGLO-RUSSIAN CONVENTION of 1907; and under individual countries and treaties.
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FORESTS AND FORESTRY
Multiple Authors
i. Forests and Forestry in Persia. ii. Forests and Forestry in Afghanistan.