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JAWHARI, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH AḤMAD
Abbas Kadhim
b. Moḥammad b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. Ḥasan b. ʿAyyāš, 10th-century Imami transmitter of Hadith (d. 1010).
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JAXARTES
Cross-Reference
river in Central Asia. See SYR DARYA, forthcoming online.
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JAZĀʾERI, NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI
Forthcoming
NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI JAZĀʾERI will be discussed in a future online entry.
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JAZI, ʿABBĀS
Habib Borjian
(1847-1905), DARVIŠ, poet in the dialect of Gaz, an oasis north of Isfahan.
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JAZIRI
Joyce Blau
SHAIKH AḤMAD, or Malâ-ye Jizrî, early Kurdish poet.
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JAŽN-Ā JAMĀʿIYA
Khalil Jindy Rashow
(Feast of the Assembly), the great communal festival of the Yazidis.
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JEBĀL
C. Edmund Bosworth
in Arabic, the plural of jabal “mountain,” a geographical term used in early Islamic times for the western part of Persia, roughly corresponding to ancient Media (Ar. māh).
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JEBHE-YE MELLI
cross-reference
See NATIONAL FRONT.
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JEBRIL B. ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH
cross-reference
See BOḴTIŠUʿ.
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JEH
Albert de Jong
name of a female demon in a small number of Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts. The name of Jeh is commonly, but with little justification, translated as “whore.”