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  • JEJEEBHOY, JAMSETJEE

    Jesse S. Palsetia

    (1783-1859), Sir, Parsi businessman and philanthropist.

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  • JELD

    cross-reference

    See BOOKBINDING 1BOOKBINDING 2.

  • JELWA, ABU’L-ḤASAN

    Mahdi Khalaji

    b. Moḥammad Ṭabāṭabāʾi (1823-1897), a leading Shiʿite scholar and master teacher of philosophy and mathematics.

  • JELWA, KETĀB AL-

    Philip Kreyenbroek

    (Kurd. Kitēba jilwe “the Book of splendor”), title of a notional sacred text in Yazidism.

  • JEM SOLṬĀN

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    (or Šāhzāda Jem, 1459-1495), Ottoman prince and poet.

  • JEMĀLI

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    Ottoman poet and writer of the 15th century.

  • JEN-NĀMA

    Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar

    (The book of jinn, Sweden, 1998), the last novel of Hushang Golshiri, arguably his magnum opus.

  • JENJĀN

    Daniel T. Potts

    coll. Jenjun, “Jinjun,” village in western Fārs, small archeological site of the Achaemenid period. 

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  • JENKINSON, ANTHONY

    Stephan Schmuck

    (1529-1611), merchant and traveler. On 2 November 1562, he arrived in Qazvin, the seat of Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524-76). But the shah did not wish to jeopardize his recently concluded peace with the Ottoman empire, so that Jenkinson was neither well received at court nor did he obtain the desired documents. In his writings, Jenkinson succinctly described his journeys to regions never before visited by English travelers.

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  • JENN

    cross-reference

    See GENIE.

  • JÉQUIER, GUSTAVE

    Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

    During his five year residence in Persia, Jéquier sent home to his family many letters and accounts of his daily life in Persia and these were compiled and published posthumously as a volume entitled En Perse 1897-1902 by his son Michel Jéquier.

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  • JERGA

    M. Jamil Hanifi

    an assembly or council of local adult men, among the settled and nomadic Pashtun tribal communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  • JERUSALEM AND IRAN

    Hagith Sivan

    Twice Jerusalem came under Persian rule, the first time in the sixth century BCE, the second during the westward expansion of the Sasanian state in the early seventh century CE.

  • JESUITS IN SAFAVID PERSIA

    Rudi Matthee

    The Fathers of the Society of Jesus were the first European missionaries to enter the Persian Gulf in the 16th century. Their pioneer was the Dutchman Gaspar Barzaeus (Berze, 1515-53).

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  • JEVDET PASHA

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    (1823-1895), Ottoman writer, historian, jurist, and statesman.

  • JEVDET, ʿABD-ALLĀH

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    (1869-1932), Ottoman poet, writer, translator, and thinker.

  • JEVRI, AHISKALI

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    (1805-1875), Ottoman poet and translator, a professional soldier.

  • JEVRI, EBRĀHIM ČELEBI

    Osman G. Özgüdenli

    (d. 1654), Ottoman poet and calligrapher.

  • JEWISH EXILARCHATE

    Jacob Neusner

    position of the head of the Jewish community in Babylonia in talmudic and medieval times, recognized in Sasanian times as an ethnarch, ruler of the ethnic group.

  • JEWS OF IRAN

    cross-reference

    See JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES.