Table of Contents

• FANĀRŪZĪ, ḴᵛĀJA ʿAMĪD ABU’L-FAWĀRES

  cross-reference

  See SENDBĀD-NĀMA.

• FANĪ KAŠMĪRĪ

  Sharif Husain Qasemi

  pen name of Shaikh MOḤAMMAD-MOḤSEN b. Ḥasan KAŠMĪRĪ (d. 1670/71), Indo-Persian scholar and poet.

• FĀNŪS

  Cross-reference

  lanterns. See ČERĀḠ.

• FAQĪR DEHLAVĪ, MĪR ŠAMS-AL-DĪN

  Munibur Rahman

  or Maftūn (fl. 18th century), Persian poet from the Indian sub-continent.

• FAQĪR-ALLĀH JALĀLĀBĀDĪ

  Cross-reference

  See AFGHANISTAN xii. LITERATURE.

• 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.

• FĀRĀBĪ

  Multiple Authors

  Muslim philosopher of the 10th century.

• FĀRĀBĪ i. Biography

  Dimitri Gutas

  No one among Fārābī’s successors and their followers, or even unrelated scholars, undertook to write his full biography.

• 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.

• 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.