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• 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 popularity of Joseph as a subject in the visual arts is by and large a reflection of the popularity of the story of Joseph in Islamic literatures.

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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

  Negin Nabavi, Hossein Shahidi

  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.

• JOVAYN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  name of three historical localities: a village in Fārs, a fortress o the northeast of Lake Zereh in Sistān, and especially the district of that name in Khorasan.

• JOVAYNI FAMILY

  Hashem Rajabzadeh

  a family of men of the pen and statesmen of the 13th and 14th centuries in Iran. Men of this family held high positions in the government under the Saljuq, Ḵᵛārazmšāh, and Il-khanid dynasties.