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  • Jāmāsp i. REIGN

    JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY

    Jāmāsp or Zāmāsp (Middle Persian yʾmʾsp, zʾmʾsp; Greek Zamásphēs; Arabic Jāmāsb, Zāmāsb, Zāmāsf; New Persian Jāmāsp, Zāmāsp) ascended to the Sasanian throne in 496.

  • Jāmāsp ii. Coinage

    NIKOLAUS SCHINDEL

    The obverses of Jāmāsp’s coins are notable for the addition of a small bust, to the right of the king’s own, which wears a mural crown with a korymbos (a cloth element enclosing the hair).

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  • JĀMĀSP-NĀMA

    Cross-Reference

    See AYĀDGĀR I JĀMĀSPIG.

  • JĀMĀSPA

    W. W. Malandra

    an official at the court of Vīštāspa and an early convert of Zarathushtra, who, in the tradition became widely known for his wisdom.

  • JĀMĀSPASA, Dastur JAMASPJI MINOCHERJI

    Ramiyar P. Karanjia and Michael Stausberg

    (1830-1898), Parsi priest and Iranologist, offspring of a priestly family from Navsari in Gujarat, India. As a high priest he guided and supervised the consecration of several fire temples, not only in Bombay but all over India. He possessed a vast collection of important Zoroastrian manuscripts, and his publication Pahlavi texts (1897-1913) made these  available to a larger audience.

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  • JĀMĀSPI

    Cross-Reference

    See AYĀDGĀR I JĀMĀSPIG.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT

    Dariush Kargar

    (lit. Compiler of stories), one of the oldest and most common titles of mostly anonymous Persian story collections, dating from the 13th to the 19th century.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKMATAYN

    cross-reference

    See NĀṢER-E ḴOSROW.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ʿOLUM

    cross-reference

    See ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, PERSIAN.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-TAMṮIL

    Ulrich Marzolph

    a collection of Persian proverbs and their stories compiled in 1045/1644 by Moḥammad-ʿAli Ḥablarudi.