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  • 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.

  • JOVAYNI, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DIN

    George Lane

    (1226-1283), ʿAṬĀ-MALEK b. Moḥammad, governor of Iraq under the Il-khanids, author of Tāriḵ-e jahān-gošāy, a major primary source for the history of Central Asia and the Mongol conquests.

  • JOVAYNI, EMĀM-AL-ḤARAMAYN

    Paul L. Heck

    (1028-1085), Abu’l-Maʿāli ʿAbd-al-Malek b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Yusof, a noted Shafiʿite scholar.

  • JOVAYNI, ṢĀḤEB DIVĀN

    Michal Biran

    ŠAMS-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad (d. 1284), Persian statesman of the early Il-khanid period, the younger brother of the historian  ʿAlāʾ-al-Din ʿAṭā-Malek Jovayni.

  • JOVIAN

    Erich Kettenhofen

    (Flavius Iovianus; 331-364), Roman emperor, r. 363-64. The present article confines discussion to the events related to the Persian campaign of 363.

  • JOWŠAQĀN

    Habib Borjian

    district in Isfahan Province in central Persia, best known for its carpets and for its dialect.

  • JOWŠAQĀN i. The District

    Habib Borjian

    Jowšaqān is located at 65 miles northwest of Isfahan, where the western foothills of the Karkas Mountain range break down into plain.

  • JOWŠAQĀN ii. The Dialect

    Habib Borjian

    Jowšaqāni, spoken in the township of Jowšaqān, is a variety of the local dialects of Kāšān, a subgroup of the Central Dialects. Published materials on the dialect include Ann Lambton’s brief grammar and texts and glossary, and R. Zargari’s verb forms, glossary, and idioms.

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  • JOWZJĀN

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    Arabicized form of Persian Gowzgān(ān), a district of eastern Khorasan in early Islamic times, now roughly corresponding to the northwest of modern Afghanistan.