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 Fazal 90 Pirdausi Fazal Khan, d^', governor or kiladar of the fort of Agra, was turned out by Sfirajmal Jat, wlio tpok possession of the fort and plundered every thing he could lay his hands ui^on. Fazil, (J.'cti, a poet who flourished about the year 489 A. D. FazI Ali Khan, iX^, a poet who flourished in the time of the emperor Muhammad Shah of Dehli, and was living in 1739 A. D., 1152 A. H. Fazl Ali Khan, ty'^ iJ^, whose entire title was " Nawab Ya'timad-ud-doula Zaya-ul-Mulk Saiyad Fazl 'AH Khan Bahadur Sohrab Jang," was the prime minister of the king of Audh Ghazi-ud-din Haidar, and was living in 1829 A. D. Fazl Barmaki, C5^(V- <d^, brother of 'Jafar-al-Barmaki, the minister of Harun-al-Eashid Khalifa of Baghdad. Vide Jafar-al-Barmaki. Fazli, a poet and author of the Loves of " Shah-wa- Mah" a poem containing 12,260 Persian verses which he completed in the year 1641 A. D. Fazl Hak, (3^ t)-^, the son of Fazl Imam. He also wrote iirose and poetry as well as his father. His Kasidas are much esteemed. At the outbreak of 1857, he joined the rebel Nawab of Banda and others, and was at last killed at Narod in an attack made by G-eneral Napier on the 17th December, 1858 A. D., 1274 A. H. The "Dehli Gazette" of May l7th, 1859 mentions, that sentence of transportation was passed on the rebels Loni Sangh, Ex- raja of jyiitauli, and the Maulwi Fazl Hak, Fazl Imam, (*'^' d'^, an inhabitant of Khairabad, who wi'ote prose and poetry, and died in the year 1828 A. D., 1244 A. H. Fazl Rasul Moidvi, cj^j''^^ J^r; iSJ^y^, of Ba- d&on, son of Maulvi Abdul Majid, and author of the works called " Bawarik," and " Tashih-ul-Masael." He was liv- ing in 1864 A. D., 1271 A. H. Fazl-ullah, <J"^*, sumamed Khwaja Eashid-uddm, a native of Kazwin or Hamdan and a Persian historian who wrote at the desire of his master the Sultan of Persia a history of the Mughals, finished in 1294 A. D., to which he afterwards added a supplement. He was beheaded in July 1318, A. D. His name is spelt in some of our Bio- graphical Dictionaries, Fadl-allah. From the work of Kashid-uddin, called Jama'-ut-Tawarikh, and from other materials, Abu'l Ghazi, king of Khwarizm, composed in the Mughal language, his Genealogical History. Vide Eashid-uddin. Fazl-ullah Moulana, ^^■'t Physician to Amir Tairaur, and the most celebrated and skilful practi- tioner of the age in which he lived. Fazl-iiUah Khan Ifawab, 1:^'=^ tJ'^', an Amjr of the court of the emperor Babar, who built a mosque in Dehli in the year 1529 A. D., 936 A. H., which is stiU standing. Faztlli Baghdadi, t^^li^^J lsV^, an author who was a native of Baghdad, and died in the year 1562 A. D., 970 A. H., and left us a Di'wan in the Persian and Tur- kish language. Fidai Khan, 4^ l*^, former title of 'Azim Khan Koka, which see. Fidai Mirza, t^'''^' !3^, name of a poet. Fidwi, of Labor, the poetical name of a person, who was cotemporary with Mirza Eaff-us-Sauda. He is the author of a poem in Urdu entitled " Yiisaf-wa-Zaleikha," (the Loves of Joseph and Potiphar's wife). Mir Fatha Ali Shaida has satuized him in his story of the " Bum and Bakkal." Fidwi, Lf}'^, author of a Persian Diwan. He flourished, or was living in the year 1649 A. D., 1059 A. H. Fighan, the poetical title of Ashraf 'Ali Kh&n, the son of Mirza 'AH Khan, and the Koka or foster-brother of the emperor Ahmad Shah of Dehlf. He is the author of a Diwan in the Urdu language, containing about 2,000 verses. He died at Patna in 1772 A. D., 1186 A. H., and was buried there. Fighani, C5^'**, vide Baba Fighanf. Fikrat, '^J^f poetical title of Mirza Ghaias-uddin. Fikri, iS^^^, poetical title of Sa'id Muhammad of Hirat. He was a weaver and is therefore called Jamabaf. He came to India in 1661 A. D., 969 A. H., and gained through his great talents for making epigrams, the favor of the emperor Akbar. He composed only Euba'is, and died in 1565 A. D., 973 A. H. Firaki, C5^L>*, poetical title of an author named Abu'l Bar- kat, who died in the year 1607 A. D., 913 A. H. Firdausi or Firdausi Tusi, i^'^y^is^j^j' ^ is'^J^^, poetical title of Abu'l Kasim Hasan-bin- Sharaf Shah, a fa- mous Persian poet, styled by us the Homer of Persia, whose epic poem, called Shahnama, written by order of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazm, is much celebrated. It contains the annals of the ancient kings of Persia, from the reign of the first king, Kaiamurs, to the death of Yezdijard III, the last monarch of the Sasanian race, who was deprived of his kingdom 641 A. D., by the invasion of the Arabs du-ing the Khilafat of 'Umar, the second KhaHf after Muhammad. It is the labour of 30 years, and consists of 60,000 verses, each of which is a distich. The following circumstances respecting the origin of the poem and the life of the poet, are chiefly derived from the preface to the copy of the Shahnama, which was collated 1426 A. D., 829 A. H., by order of Baisanghur Mirza the grandson of Amir Taimur. It appears from that preface, that Yezdijard, the last king of the Sasanian race, took considerable pains in collecting all the chronicles, histo- ries, and traditions connected with Persia and the sove- reigns of that countr}', from the time of 'Kaiomurs to the accession of the Khusros, which by his direction were digested and brought into one view, and formed the book known by the name of " Siar-ul-Maluk," or the Bastan Nama. When the followers of Muhammad overturned the Persian monarchy, this work was found in the plun- dered library of Yazdijard. In the tenth century one of the kings of the Sasanian dynasty, directed Dakikf the poet to verify that extensive work, but the poet only Hved to finish a thousand distichs, having been assassinated by his own slave. Nothing further was done till the reign of Sultan Mahmud, when a romantic accident furnished the Sultan with a copy of the Bastan Nama, the existence of which was till then unknown to him. From this work, he selected seven stories which he deHvered to seven poets to be composed in verse, that he might be able to ascer- tain the merits of each competitor. The poet Unsarf gained the palm, and he was accordingly engaged to ar- range the whole in verse. Pirdausi was at this time at Tus, his native city, where he cultivated his poetical ta- lents with assiduity and success. He had heard of the attempt of Dakiki, and of the determination of the reign- ing king Mahmud, to patroniiie an undertaking which