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FĀRESĪYĀT
Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī
a literary term used in Arabic literature to refer to poems in Arabic which contain some Persian words or even phrases in their original form, the most notable example being the Fāresīyāt of Abū Nowās.
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FARḠĀNA
C. Edmund Bosworth
valley of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) river extending ca. 300 km between the Farḡāna mountains in the east and the first sharp bend of the river’s course to the north.
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FARḠĀNĪ, AḤMAD
David Pingree
b. Moḥammad b. Kaṯīr (fl. ca. 950 C.E.), Muslim astronomer.
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FARḠĀNĪ, EMĀM-AL-ḤARAMAYN SERĀJ-Al-DĪN ABU’L-MOḤAMMAD ʿALĪ
Sayyāra Mahīnfar
b. ʿOṯmān Ūšī or Ūsī (d. 1173), oṣūlī jurist (faqīh), traditionist, and author.
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FARḠĀNĪ, SAʿĪD-AL-DĪN MOHAMMAD
William C. Chittick
b. Ahmad (d. 1300), Sufi author from the town of Kāsān in Farḡān.
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FARḠĀNĪ, SAYF-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Sayyāra Mahīnfar
thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi of Farḡāna.
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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)
Cross-Reference
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.
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