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FALCONS AND FALCONRY
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FALLĀḤ, REŻĀ
Bāqer ʿĀqelī and EIr
(b. Kāšān, 1910; d. London, 1981), deputy manager of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; Šerkat-e mellī-e naft-e Īrān), in charge of international relations and marketing.
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FALSAFA
Mansour Shaki
philosophy in the pre-Islamic period. For philosophy in the Islamic period, see also articles under individual authors and schools, e.g., AVICENNA, FĀRĀBĪ, ILLUMINATIONISM, ISFAHAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, and MOLLĀ ṢADRĀ.
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FALSAFĪ, NAṢR–ALLĀH
Manouchehr Parsadoust
(b. Tehran, 1901; d. 1981), Persian historian, educator, journalist, translator, and poet.
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FALUDY, György
ANDRÁS BODROGLIGETI
(1910-2006), Hungarian poet, translator, and publicist.
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FĀMĪ
Cross-reference
See ABU NAṢR FĀMI.
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FAMILY LAW
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mansour Shaki, Jeanette Wakin
legal prescriptions dealing with marriage, divorce, the status of children, inheritance, and related matters.
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FAMILY OF THE PROPHET
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E ʿABĀ, lit. “Family of the cloak.”
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FAMILY PLANNING
Mehdi Amani, Nancy Hatch Dupree
a term for programs to regulate family size that came into use in the West in the 1930s. Although it originally encompassed efforts both to promote and to curtail fertility, explosive population growth in the developing countries since mid-century has narrowed its meaning to control of fertility.
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FAMINES
Xavier de Planhol
in Persia.