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JAMʿIYAT-E HELĀL-E AḤMAR-E IRĀN
Farid Ghassemlou
a non-governmental humanitarian organization affiliated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); founded in 1919 to promote health activities.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI
Ali Rahnema
(Society of Islamic Coalition), a religious-political organization founded in 1963 to propagate Ayatollah Khomeini’s vision of an Islamic-Iranian state and society and to mobilize the population to implement that vision.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI i. Hayʾathā-ye Moʾtalefa-ye Eslāmi 1963-79
Ali Rahnema
The Islamic Coalition of Mourning Groups was born almost two years after the death of Ayatollah Ḥosayn Ṭabāṭabāʾi Borujerdi in 1961.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI ii. Jamʿiyat-e Moʾtalefa and the Islamic Revolution
Ali Rahnema
After the 1979 Revolution, the “Coalition of Islamic Mourning Groups” changed its expressive and meaningful name to the rather awkward appellation of Jamʿiyat-e moʾtalefa-ye eslāmi (the Society of Islamic Coalition).
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JAMḴĀNA
cross-reference
See AḤL-E ḤAQQ.
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JAMKARĀN
Jean Calmard
village near Qom, located 6 km south of it on the Qom-Kashan highway. It includes the mazraʿas of Gorgābi (Hādi-Mehdi) and Zangābād, the ruins of Gabri castle, and the Jamkarān or Ṣāḥeb-al-Zamān mosque.
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JAMSHIDI TRIBE
Christine Noelle-Karimi
(Jamšidi) one of several semi-nomadic, Persian-speaking, Hanafite Sunni groups of northwestern Afghanistan known as aymāq.
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JAMŠID
Multiple Authors
(or Jam), mythical king of Iran; Avestan Yima (Old Indic Yama), with the epithet xšaēta.
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JAMŠID B. MASʿUD ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN KĀŠI
cross-reference
See KĀŠI.
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JAMŠID i. Myth of Jamšid
PRODS OKTOR SKJÆRVØ
In the Avesta, he ruled the world in a golden age; he saved living beings from a natural catastrophe by preserving specimens in his var- (fortress); he possessed the most Fortune among mortals, but lost it and his kingship as a consequence of lying.