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BĀBĀʾĪ BEN FARHĀD
Amnon Netzer
18th-century author of a versified history of the Jews of Kāšān with brief references to the Jews of Isfahan and one or two other towns.
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FARHĀD (1)
Heshmat Moayyad
romantic figure in Persian legend and literature, best known from the poetry of Neẓāmī Ganjavī as a rival with the Sasanian king Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 591-628) for the love of the beautiful Armenian princess Šīrīn.
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FARHĀD (2)
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name of a number of Parthian kings. See PHRAATES.
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FARHĀD KHAN QARAMĀNLŪ, ROKN-AL-SALṬANA
Rudi Matthee
military commander of Shah ʿAbbās I, executed at the Shah’s orders in 1598.
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FARHĀD MĪRZĀ MOʿTAMAD-AL-DAWLA
Kambiz Eslami
(1818-1888), Qajar prince-governor and bibliophile. Holding highly conservative religious views, he viewed Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah's reformist vizier as an obliterator of the “foundation of the Muslim šarīʿa,” who was guilty of spreading the word “liberty” among the people.