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• JOVAYNI, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DIN

  George Lane

  ʿAṬĀ-MALEK b. Moḥammad (1226-1283), 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

  , Abu’l-Maʿāli ʿAbd-al-Malek b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Yusof (1028-1085), 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 Dialect.

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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.

• JOWZJĀNI, ABU ʿOBAYD

  Robert Wisnovsky

  (Juzjāni), ABU ʿOBAYD ʿABD-AL-WĀḤED b. Moḥammad, companion, literary secretary, and biographer of Avicenna.

• JOWZJĀNI, MIR JUJOK

  R. D. McChesney

  a late 16th-century literary figure given the title malek al-šoʿarāʾ at Balkh by the Shibanid (Šaybānid) ruler there, ʿAbd-al-Moʾmen Khan (r. at Balkh 1583-98).