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JAHN, KARL EMIL OSKAR
J. T. P. DE Bruijn
(1906-1985), Czech orientalist who specialized in Central Asian history, Persian historiography, and Turcology.
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JAHROM
SHIVA JA’FARI
city and sub-province (šahrestān) in central Fārs Province, covering an area of 4,517 sq. km.
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JAIPUR
Catherine B. Asher
city in northwestern India, founded in 1727 by the Kachhwaha prince (raja) and Mughal officer Sawai Jai Singh Kachhwaha (1688-1743). He built an observatory in Jaipur with enormous instruments for observing and calculating celestial phenomena
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JĀJARMI
Anna Livia Beelaert
MOḤAMMAD B. BADR, 14th-century Persian poet and anthologist.
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JĀJRUD
Bernard Hourcade
a major river of the southern slopes of the central Alborz in the Central Plateau (140 km. long, basin of 1,890 km²), running from the mountains of Šami-rānāt at Rudbār-e Qaṣrān to the plain of Varāmin and eventually joins the salt lake of Qom (Daryāča-ye Qom), at about 89 km to the northwest of the city.
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JĀKI
P. Oberling
a group of Lor tribes in the Kuhgiluya region of eastern Khuzesan. They comprise the tribal confederations of the Čahārboniča (or Čarboniča) and the Lirāvi.
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JAKKADI
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
a dance style performed by Persian women, as documented in Sanskrit treatises of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN ABU’L-QĀSEM TABRIZI
Farhan Nizami
(d. 1244-45), a prominent Sufi of the Sohravardiya Order. Started his education in Tabriz under Badr-al-Din Abu Saʿid Tabrizi.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN DAVĀNI
cross-reference
See DAVĀNI.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN ḤASAN III
FARHAD DAFTARY
(b. 1166-67; d. 1221), Nezāri Ismaʿili imam and the sixth lord of Alamut. He succeeded to the leadership of the Nezāridaʿwa (‘propaganda’ or ‘mission,’ see DĀʿI) and state on the death of his father, Nur-al-Din Moḥammad II b. Ḥasan II.