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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.

• 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

  cross-reference

  See ALQĀB VA ʿANĀWIN.

• JANĀB DAMĀVANDI

  S. A. Mir ʿAlinaqi

  (1867-1973), popular name of Moḥammad Fallāḥi, a vocalist of the late Qajar period.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• JANNĀBA

  Cross-Reference

  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.

• JANNĀBI, ABU SAʿID

  Cross-Reference

  11th-century vizier and man of letters. See, ĀBI, ABU SAʿID.