Table of Contents
-
FALCONS AND FALCONRY
Cross-reference
-
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.
-
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.
-
FALSAFĪ, NAṢR–ALLĀH
Manouchehr Parsadoust
(b. Tehran, 1901; d. 1981), Persian historian, educator, journalist, translator, and poet.
-
FALUDY, György
ANDRÁS BODROGLIGETI
(1910-2006), Hungarian poet, translator, and publicist.
-
FĀMĪ
Cross-reference
See ABU NAṢR FĀMI.
-
FAMILY LAW
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mansour Shaki, Jeanette Wakin
legal prescriptions dealing with marriage, divorce, the status of children, inheritance, and related matters.
-
FAMILY OF THE PROPHET
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E ʿABĀ, lit. “Family of the cloak.”
-
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.
This Article Has Images/Tables. -
FAMINES
Xavier de Planhol
in Persia.
-
FANĀ ḴOSROW
Cross-reference
-
FANĀʾĪĀN, Mīrzā FARAJ-ALLĀH JONŪN
Vahid Rafati
b. Loṭf-ʿAlī b. Moḥammad-Reżā (b. Sangsar, 1873), poet.
-
FANĀRŪZĪ, ḴᵛĀJA ʿAMĪD ABU’L-FAWĀRES
cross-reference
See SENDBĀD-NĀMA.
-
FANĪ KAŠMĪRĪ
Sharif Husain Qasemi
pen name of Shaikh MOḤAMMAD-MOḤSEN b. Ḥasan KAŠMĪRĪ (d. 1670/71), Indo-Persian scholar and poet.
-
FĀNŪS
Cross-reference
lanterns. See ČERĀḠ.
-
FAQĪR DEHLAVĪ, MĪR ŠAMS-AL-DĪN
Munibur Rahman
or Maftūn (fl. 18th century), Persian poet from the Indian sub-continent.
-
FAQĪR-ALLĀH JALĀLĀBĀDĪ
Cross-reference
-
FĀRĀB
C. Edmund Bosworth
a small district on the middle Syr Darya in Transoxania, at the confluence of that river with its right-bank tributary, the Arys, which flows down from Esfījāb, and also the name of a small town within it.
-
FĀRĀBĪ
Multiple Authors
Muslim philosopher of the 10th century.
-
FĀRĀBĪ i. Biography
Dimitri Gutas
No one among Fārābī’s successors and their followers, or even unrelated scholars, undertook to write his full biography.