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• JĀVDĀN-NĀMA

  Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

  the major work of Fażl-Allāh Astarābādi (d. 1394), the founder of the Ḥorufi movement.

• JĀVID, ʿABD-AL-AḤMAD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (1927-2002), educator and scholar of Persian literature and history.  

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• JĀVID-NĀMA

  David Matthews

  (Pers. Jāved-nāma), title of a Persian maṯnawi by Muhammad Iqbal, often rendered into English as “The Song of Eternity,” first published in 1932.

• JAWĀHER AL-ʿAJĀYEB

  Maria Szuppe

  a short, rare kind of taḏkera in Persian, containing biographies of female poets and specimens of their verses (mostly in Persian, some in Chaghatay Turkish).

• JAWĀHER-E ḴAMSA

  Carl W. Ernst

  title of a Persian work on Sufi meditation practices composed by the well-known and controversial Šaṭṭārī saint, Moḥammad Ḡawṯ Gwāleyārī (1500-1563).

• JAWĀHER-NĀMA

  Yves Porter

  the title of several Persian works on precious stones, gems, minerals, and metals, as well as on crafts related to them.

• JAWĀLIQI, HEŠĀM

  Abbas Kadhim

  b. Sālem, an Imami jurist and theologian of the 8th century. He was a close associate of the Imams Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq and Musā al-Kāẓem.

• JAWĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT

  Dariush Kargar

  the earliest and the most comprehensive collection of stories in the Persian language, compiled by Sadid-al-Din Moḥammad ʿAwfi (d. after 1232).

• JAWHARI, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH AḤMAD

  Abbas Kadhim

   b. Moḥammad b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. Ḥasan b. ʿAyyāš, 10th-century Imami transmitter of Hadith (d. 1010).

• JAXARTES

  Cross-Reference

  river in Central Asia. See SYR DARYA, forthcoming online.