Farishta

It is a feminine given name of Persian origin, meaning angel. 1) In the early 1320s (1940 AD), Mr Mohammad Ali Masoudi, a journalist, publisher, member of parliament (Majles) and finally a senator in the Iranian Senate, Mr Masoudi built a summer house with a large garden on a dirt road named Doctor Namdar, which was off ValiAsr (Pahlavi) and went by the name of Doctor Namdar. Mr. Masoudi had two daughters, Maryam and Fereshteh, and he changed part of the street name to Fereshteh. After the revolution, the remainder of Doctor Namdar street was changed to Koohyar. 2) Firishta or Ferishta (~1560–1620), Indian Muslim historian. His given name was Muhammad Kasim Hindu Shah. Under the patronage of the Shah of Bijapur, he wrote a history of the Muslims in India from the 10th cent. His work, translated as “History of the Rise of the Mohamedan Power in India,” is a landmark in Indian historiography. It gives detailed knowledge of the medieval period in India.