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JAMŠID ii. In Persian Literature
Mahmoud Omidsalar
Sources all agree that he reigned for several hundred years, but they differ on the exact length of his rule.
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JĀN MOḤAMMAD KHAN
Bāqer ʿĀqeli
(1886-1951), AMIR ʿALĀʾI, brigadier general and commander of Khorasan army during the early Reżā Shah period, noted for his ruthlessness but eventually undone due to a mutiny of unpaid troops.
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JANĀB
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See ALQĀB VA ʿANĀWIN.
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JANĀB DAMĀVANDI
S. A. Mir ʿAlinaqi
(1867-1973), popular name of Moḥammad Fallāḥi, a vocalist of the late Qajar period.
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JAND
C. Edmund Bosworth
a medieval Islamic town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes in Central Asia some 350 km from where the river enters the Aral Sea.
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JANDAQ
M. Badanj
a town and rural district (dehestān) in the Ḵor and Biābānak district (baḵš) of Nāʾin sub-province in the province of Isfahan.
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JANGALI MOVEMENT
Pezhmann Dailami
(1915-20), under the leadership of Mirzā Kuček Khan Jangali, in response to the political decay during World War I and the occupation of Iran by Anglo-Russian and Ottoman troops.
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JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI ŠĀMLU
Rudi Matthee
(d. 1645), išik-āqāsi-bāši (master of ceremony) and qurči-bāši (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629-42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642-66).
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JANNĀBA
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term used by early Muslim geographers to refer to the county (šahrestān) and port city on the Persian Gulf in the province of Būšehr. See GANĀVA.
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JANNĀBI, ABU SAʿID
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11th-century vizier and man of letters. See, ĀBI, ABU SAʿID.