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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. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 137-138 FABLE, a kind of story often defined as “an animal tale with a moral” ( Funk and Wagnalls, s.v. “Fable”; cf. Thompson, 1977, p. 10). 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. Joseph Jacobs defined the fable as “a sho…

or LODEWYCK (b. Brazil, 1648; died Stockholm, 1729), Swedish envoy to the Safavid court. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 138-140 FABRITIUS, LUDVIG (LODEWYCK), Swedish envoy to the Safavid court (b. 1648 in Brazil, of Dutch parentage; d. 1729 in Stockholm). Fabritius headed three missions to Persia representing the Swedish crown in 1679-80, 1683-84, and 1697-1700. Fabritius came to Moscow with his stepfather in 1660 or 1661 and subsequently pursued a career as an officer in the Russian army. He took part in a number …

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. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 140-156 FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN. The University of Tehran was founded in 1313 Š./1934 from four pre-existing schools ( madrasas) wh…

See MADRASA-YE ʿOLŪM-E SĪĀSĪ.

Download this sound. title Fadāye Roḳsār - Dekr Qāderieh genre/topic Dekr language Sorani Kurdish performer Ḵalifeh Mirzā Āğah Ğowṭi instrument Voices and dafs composer   author/poet   first line of poem   recorded by   place of recording   date of recording   duration 1:24 source Regional Music of Iran. Sufi Music. Zekr-e Yā Rahmān. Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, 2007 (M.CD-226), track 2.Used with permission of the publisher. note   EIr entries DAF(F) AND DĀYERAḎEKR

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(d. Khorasan 999), Turkish eunuch and slave commander of the Samanid army in Transoxania and Khorasan during the closing decades of that dynasty’s power. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 156 FĀʾEQ ḴĀṢṢA, ABU’L-ḤASAN (d. Khorasan 389/999), Turkish eunuch and slave commander of the Samanid army in Transoxania and Khorasan during the closing decades of that dynasty’s power. Except that he was part of the Samanid amirs’ slave guard nothing is known of Fāʾeq’s antecedents, but at the beginning of the reign of the minor Nūḥ …

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(b. Stockholm, 1818; d. Shiraz, 1879), Swedish physician in Shiraz, 1848-79. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 156-157 FAGERGREN, CONRAD GUSTAF (b. Stockholm, 7 August 1818, d. Shiraz, 10 October 1879), Swedish physician in Shiraz, 1266-96/1848-79. Fagergren was the son of a wood-carver and was first trained as a bath attendant and barber-surgeon. Later he studied medicine in Stockholm and traveled in Europe, eventually enrolling in Russian military service. While with an army corps…

the most prolific producer of astronomical tables in the Islamic world. He is credited with a total of six tables, all of which are lost. There are three lists of these tables, given by Moḥammad b. Abū Bakr Fāresī, Šams Monajjem Wābeknavī, and Ḥājī Ḵalīfa. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 157-158 FAHHĀD, FARĪD-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ, b. ʿAbd-al-Karīm Šarvānī (fl. 6th/12th cent.; he is sometimes called by his father’s name ʿAbd-al-Karīm), the most prolific producer of astronomical tables ( zīj) in the Islamic world. He is credited with a t…

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an appellation given especially to the quatrains and by extension to the poetry in general composed in the old dialects of the Pahla/Fahla regions. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 158-162 FAHLAVĪYĀT (sing.: fahlavīya, Arabicized form of Persian pahlavī, in its original sense of Parthian), an appellation given especially to the quatrains and by extension to the poetry in general composed in the old dialects of the Pahla/Fahla regions. According to Ebn al-Moqaffaʿ (in Fehrest, ed. Tajaddod, p. 15, tr. Dodge, I, p. 24), Fahla consisted …

a rural district (dehestān) situated 12 km northwest of Nūrābād in the Mamassanī šahrestān. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 162-163 FAHLĪĀN, a rural district ( dehestān) situated 12 km northwest of Nūrābād in the Mamassanī šahrestān. It consists of the plain of Fahlīān and foothills. The Fahlīān River irrigates the plain only, and the foothills, despite being fertile, remain uncultivated due to lack of water. Two tributaries, one of fresh water and the other brackish, merge at a place called Sar …

subdistrict ( dehestān) and town in the Persian province of Yazd. The town (31ò 46’ N, 54ò 35’ E), 1270 m above sea level, is located 30 km southeast of Yazd on the main road to Bāfq and on the foothill of Čalta mountain. FAHRAJ, subdistrict ( dehestān) and town in the Persian province of Yazd. The town (31ò 46’ N, 54ò 35’ E), 1270 m above sea level, is located 30 km southeast of Yazd on the main road to Bāfq and on the foothill of Čalta mountain ( Farhang-e joḡrāfiāʾi,p. 70). In 1996 the population of the town was 16,549 (Markaz-e Amār-e Iran, p. 9). The local people are Persian-spea…

(b. Rašt, 1899; d. Tehran, 1988), educator, journalist, lawyer, and scholar. A version of this article is available in print Volume IX, Fascicle 2, pp. 165 FAḴRĀʾĪ, EBRĀHĪM REŻĀZĀDA (b. 1278/1899 in Rašt, d. 16 Bahman 1366 Š./5 February 1988 in Tehran), educator, journalist, lawyer, and scholar. His father, Ḥājī Reżā, was a merchant in Rašt and a member of the Provincial Council (Anjoman-e eyālatī) of Gīlān during the Constitutional Revolution (q.v.). Ebrāhīm began his education in a local maktab (see education iii) at age five but later pursued modern education at Majīdīy…

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See GORGĀNĪ, FAḴR-AL-DĪN ASʿADĪ.

See ʿERĀQI, FAḴR-AL-DIN.

See ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD HAMADĀNĪ.

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