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JEJEEBHOY, JAMSETJEE
Jesse S. Palsetia
(1783-1859), Sir, Parsi businessman and philanthropist.
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JELD
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See BOOKBINDING 1; BOOKBINDING 2.
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JELWA, ABU’L-ḤASAN
Mahdi Khalaji
b. Moḥammad Ṭabāṭabāʾi (1823-1897), a leading Shiʿite scholar and master teacher of philosophy and mathematics.
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JELWA, KETĀB AL-
Philip Kreyenbroek
(Kurd. Kitēba jilwe “the Book of splendor”), title of a notional sacred text in Yazidism.
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JEM SOLṬĀN
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(or Šāhzāda Jem, 1459-1495), Ottoman prince and poet.
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JEMĀLI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
Ottoman poet and writer of the 15th century.
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JEN-NĀMA
Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar
(The book of jinn, Sweden, 1998), the last novel of Hushang Golshiri, arguably his magnum opus.
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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
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See GENIE.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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JEVDET, ʿABD-ALLĀH
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(1869-1932), Ottoman poet, writer, translator, and thinker.
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JEVRI, AHISKALI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(1805-1875), Ottoman poet and translator, a professional soldier.
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JEVRI, EBRĀHIM ČELEBI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(d. 1654), Ottoman poet and calligrapher.
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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.
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JEWS OF IRAN
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