Fazal Khan, (
Arabic characters), governor or kiladar of the fort of
Agra, was turned out by Súrajmal Ját, who took possession
of the fort and plundered every thing he could lay his
hands upon.
Fazil, (Arabic characters), a poet who flourished about the year 489 A. D.
Fazl Ali Khan, (Arabic characters), 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, (Arabic characters), whose entire title was
"Nawáb 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, (Arabic characters), 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, (Arabic characters), name of a poet.
Fidwi (Arabic characters), 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
