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  • FARMĀNFARMĀ, FĪRŪZ MĪRZĀ NOṢRAT-AL-DAWLA

    Shireen Mahdavi

    (1817-1886), sixteenth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā and grandson of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah. His political and military career flourished in the reigns of his brother Moḥammad Shah (834-48) and his nephew Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96).

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  • FARMĀNFARMĀ, ḤOSAYN-ʿALĪ MĪRZĀ

    Gavin R. G. Hambly

    (1789-1835), the fifth son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, long-time governor of Fārs, and briefly the self-styled king of Persia.

  • FARMĀNFARMĀ, MAḤMŪD KHAN NĀṢER-AL-MOLK

    ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN NAVĀʿĪ

    (b. ca. 1828-29; d. Tehran, 1887), high-ranking official in the reign of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96).

  • FARMING

    Mohammad-Said Nouri Naini

    in Persia. In the mid-1990s Persian agriculture accounted for over 25 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 25 percent of employment, and 33 percent of non-oil exports. It also met 75 percent of domestic food requirements and 90 percent of the needs of agricultural industries in the country.

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  • FARNAH

    Cross-reference

    See FARR(AH).

  • FARNŪDSĀR

    Cross-Reference

    See NAẒEM-AL-AṬEBBĀʾ.

  • FARŌḴŠI

    Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal

    the name of a Zoroastrian ceremony for departed souls, also called Farošīn, in Irani Zoroastrian dialect Parošīn.

  • FARR(AH)

    Gherardo Gnoli

    Avestan Xᵛarənah, lit. “glory,” according to the most likely etymology and the semantic function reconstructed from its occurrence in various contexts and phases of the Iranian languages.

  • FARR(AH) ii. ICONOGRAPHY OF FARR(AH)/XᵛARƎNAH

    Abolala Soudavar

    The core myth that reveals the characteristics of farr is the myth of Jamšid  in the Avesta. Empowered by his farr, Jamšid rules the world, but loses it when he strays from the righteous path.

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  • FARRANT, FRANCIS

    Denis Wright

    (1803?-1868), Colonel, British soldier and diplomat.

  • FARRĀŠ

    Cross-Reference

    See CITIES iii.

  • FARROḴ KHAN KĀŠĪ, AMĪN-AL-MOLK

    Cross-Reference

    See AMĪN-AL-DAWLA, ABŪ ṬĀLEB FARROḴ KHAN.

  • FARROḴ, Sayyed MAḤMŪD

    Jalal Matini

    (b. Mašhad, 1896; d. Mašhad, 1981), litterateur, poet, Majles deputy, and executive.

  • FARROḴĀN-E BOZORG

    Cross-Reference

    See DĀBŪYĪDS.

  • FARROḴĀN-E KŪČAK

    Cross-Reference

    See DĀBŪYĪDS.

  • FARROḴI

    Habib Borjian

    a township on the southern edge of the Great Desert, in Ḵur-Biābānak Sub-province, Isfahan Province.

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  • FARROḴĪ SĪSTĀNĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ

    J. T. P. de Bruijn

    b. Jūlūḡ, eleventh century Persian court poet.

  • FARROḴĪ YAZDĪ

    Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

    (1889-1939), journalist and poet and an early advocate of socialist revolution in Persia.

  • FARROḴZĀD

    Cross-Reference

    son of Ḵosrow II, ruled briefly in 630/631. See SASANIAN DYNASTY.

  • FARROḴZĀD, ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    b. Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd, Ghaznavid sultan of Afghanistan and northern India (r. 1052-59).