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• FABLE

  Mahmoud and Teresa P. Omidsalar

  a kind of story often defined as “an animal tale with a moral"; there is no exact Persian equivalent of the term, but the words afsāna, dāstān, hekāyat, qeṣṣa, and samar are used to refer to such stories.

• FABRITIUS, LUDVIG

  Rudi Matthee

  or LODEWYCK (b. Brazil, 1648; died Stockholm, 1729), Swedish envoy to the Safavid court.

• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN

  Multiple Authors

  This article will deal with the faculties of Agriculture, Fine Arts, Law and Political Science, Letters and Humanities, and Medicine, which are among the oldest and most important secular institutions of higher education in Persia. Other faculties of the University of Tehran and main faculties of other major universities will be treated under individual UNIVERSITIES.

• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN i. Faculty of Agriculture

  MOḤAMMAD-ḤASAN MAHDAWĪ ARDABĪLĪ

  The program was full time for three years, and the students’ expenses were paid by the government. All graduates received the equivalent of bachelors’s degrees in agricultural engineering.

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• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN ii. Faculty of Fine Arts

  MORTAŻĀ MOMAYYEZ

  Like most other faculties of the University of Tehran, the Faculty of Fine Arts was created by integrating already existing institutions.

• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN iii. Faculty of Law and Political Science

  Ahmad Ashraf

  one of the oldest institutions of modern higher education in Persia, founded in 1927 with the merger of the School of Political Science (established in 1899) and the School of Law (established in 1918). 

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• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN iv. Faculty of Letters and Humanities

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  The Faculty of Letters and Humanities (Dāneškada-ye adabīyāt wa ʿolūm-e ensānī), originally named the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy, and Educational Sciences (Dāneškada-ye adabīyāt wa falsafa wa ʿolūm-e tarbīatī), was one of the six faculties of the University of Tehran when it was founded in February 1935.

• FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN v. Faculty of Medicine

  YŪNOS KARĀMATĪ and EIr

  (Dāneškada-ye pezeškī), the pioneering academic institution of modern medicine in Persia, one of the six main faculties of the new University of Tehran in 1934. It was the successor to the Dār al-fonūn Department of Medicine, established in 1851, which had become the School of Medicine (Madrasa-ye ṭebb) in 1919.

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• FADĀʾIĀN-E ḴALQ

  Peyman Vahabzadeh

  a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group arising from the student movement and the urban middle-class intellectuals and influenced by the Latin American revolutionary discourse, its objective was to instigate, and eventually lead, a popular movement against the Iranian monarchy.

• FĀDŪSBĀN

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  See BĀDŪSPĀN.