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FARĀNAK
Cross-reference
according to the Šāh-nāma, the mother of Ferēdūn; also the name of a wife of Bahrām V Gōr.
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FARANG, FARANGĪ
Forthcoming
Forthcoming online.
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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.
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FARANGĪS
Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
eldest daughter of Afrāsīāb and wife of Sīāvaḵš.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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FĀRESĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ʿALĪ FĀRESĪ.
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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.
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