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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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • FARĀH

    Daniel Balland

    or FARAH; a town and province in southwestern Afghanistan.

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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.

  • 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

    Cross-Reference

    See ADĪB-AL-MAMĀLEK FARĀHĀNĪ.

  • 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.

  • 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.