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  • JORJĀNI, ZAYN-AL-DIN ESMĀʿIL

    Hušang Aʿlam

     better known as Sayyed Esmāʿil Jorjāni (b. Gorgān, 1043-44?; d. Marv, 1136-37), physician and author of Ḏaḵira-ye ḵᵛārazamšāhi, the largest encyclopedia of Galenic medicine in Persian. 

  • JOSEPH

    Multiple Authors

    (Ar. Yusof), son of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The story of Joseph has always been a source of attractive subject matters for the exegetists of the Qurʾān, poets, miniaturists, and popular tales.

  • JOSEPH i. IN PERSIAN LITERATURE

    Asghar Dadbeh

    As a love story with religious overtones, the romance of Yusof and Zolayḵā has always been among the very favorite themes of Persian poets.

  • JOSEPH ii. In Qurʾānic Exegesis

    Annabel Keeler

    In the Qurʾān, the story of the prophet Joseph is unique in being related as one continuous narrative, making up almost the entirety of chapter (sura) 12.

  • JOSEPH iii. IN PERSIAN ART

    Chad Kia

    The most appealing subject from the Joseph story has been the episode involving Potiphar’s wife, called Zolayḵā in Islamic lore. The popularity of the stories as a subject for lyrical and narrative poetry dates back to the Ghaznavid period.

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  • JOSTANIDS

    Manouchehr Pezeshk

    also referred to as Āl-e Jostān and Āl-e Vahsudān, a local dynasty that ruled from Rudbār in Deylam, the mountainous district of Gilān during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

  • JOURNALISM IN IRAN

    Multiple Authors

    the collection and editing of news for presentation through the public press during the Qajar, Pahlavi, and Post-Revolutionary periods.

  • JOURNALISM i. Qajar Period

    Negin Nabavi

    For much of the Qajar period, journalism was a state-run domain. In the second half of the period,  newspapers began to appear increasingly.

  • JOURNALISM ii. Pahlavi Period

    cross-reference

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  • JOURNALISM iii. Post-Revolution Era

    Hossein Shahidi

    At the time of the 1978-79 Revolution, there were about 100 newspapers in Iran, of which twenty-three were dailies. Within two years of the revolution, 700 new titles had appeared.