Table of Contents
-
FARĀNAK
Cross-reference
according to the Šāh-nāma, the mother of Ferēdūn; also the name of a wife of Bahrām V Gōr.
-
FARANG, FARANGĪ
Forthcoming
Forthcoming online.
-
FARANGĪ MAḤALL
Muhammad Wali-ul-Haq Ansari
or FERANGĪ MAḤAL; family of Indian Muslim teachers, Hanafite scholars, and mystics active over the last 300 years.
-
FARANGĪS
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
eldest daughter of Afrāsīāb and wife of Sīāvaḵš.
-
FARAS-NĀMA
Īraj Afšār
a category of books and manuals dealing with horses and horsemanship. Topics treated in this literary genre include horse-breeding, grazing, dressage, veterinary advice, horseracing and betting, and the art of divination based on the mien and movements of horses.
This Article Has Images/Tables. -
FARĀVA
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Parau, a small medieval town in eastern Persia, lying east of the Caspian Sea and just beyond the northern edge of the Kopet-Dag range facing the Kara Kum desert.
-
FARDIN, Moḥammad ʿAli
Jamsheed Akrami
Fardin’s 23-year film career blossomed late, after a short stint in the theater, and it suffered an early demise in 1981 when the Islamic Republic of Iran banned him from filmmaking in a wholesale purge of the major entertainers of the pre-revolution era.
This Article Has Images/Tables. -
FĀRES
C. Edmund Bosworth
the Arabic term for “rider on a horse, cavalryman,” connected with the verb farasa/farosa “to be knowledgeable about horses, be a skillful horseman” and the noun faras “horse."
-
FĀRESĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ʿALĪ FĀRESĪ.
-
FĀRESĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD
Gül A. Russell
(d. 1320), the most significant figure in optics after Ebn al-Hayṯam (Alhazen; 965-1040). The two names have been linked due to his critical revision of Ebn al-Hayṯam’s Ketāb al-manāẓer, which represents a watershed in the scientific understanding of light and vision.
This Article Has Images/Tables. -
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.
-
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.
-
FARḠĀNĪ, AḤMAD
David Pingree
b. Moḥammad b. Kaṯīr (fl. ca. 950 C.E.), Muslim astronomer.
-
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.
-
FARḠĀNĪ, SAʿĪD-AL-DĪN MOHAMMAD
William C. Chittick
b. Ahmad (d. 1300), Sufi author from the town of Kāsān in Farḡān.
-
FARḠĀNĪ, SAYF-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Sayyāra Mahīnfar
thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi of Farḡāna.
-
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.
-
FARHĀD (2)
Cross-Reference
name of a number of Parthian kings. See PHRAATES.
-
FARHĀD KHAN QARAMĀNLŪ, ROKN-AL-SALṬANA
Rudi Matthee
military commander of Shah ʿAbbās I, executed at the Shah’s orders in 1598.
-
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.
This Article Has Images/Tables.