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• JOBBĀʾI

  Sabine Schmidtke

  the name of two Muʿtazilite theologians, Abu ʿAli Moḥammad b. ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb (849-915) and his son Abu Hāšem ʿAbd-al-Salām (890-933).

• JOČI

  Michal Biran

  (in Persian and Turkic also Tuši, Duši, ca. 1184-1227), the eldest son of Čengiz Khan (d. 1227) and the ancestor of the khans of the Golden Horde, the westernmost Mongolian khanate.

• JOFT-E GĀV

  Cross-Reference

  "pair of oxen," term used in traditional farming system of Iran. See GĀVBAND.

• JOḠD

  cross-reference

  See BUF.

• JOLLĀBI, ABU’L-ḤASAN

  cross-reference

  See HOJVIRI, ABU’L-ḤASAN.

• JOMUR

  P. Oberling

  (also angl. Jumur), a small Sunnite Kurdish tribe of northern Lorestān.

• JONAS, Hans

  Kurt Rudolph

  (1903-1993), philosopher who significantly contributed to 20-century research on gnosticism.

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• JONAYD

  Kathryn Babayan

  B. EBRĀHIM, a patrilineal descendant of Shaikh Ṣafi-al-Din (d. 1334), the founder of the Ṣafaviya order in Ardabil. Jonayd played the central role in expanding the membership of the order.

• JONAYD-E NAQQĀŠ

  Barbara Brend

  a painter of the 14th century, known from one reference and one picture.

• JONDIŠĀBUR

  cross-reference

  See GONDĒŠĀPUR.