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  • JAHĀNĀRĀ BEGUM

    Stephen Dale

    (1614-81), the eldest surviving daughter of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān and his favorite wife, Momtāz Mahal.

  • JAHĀNBEGLU

    P. Oberling

    (or Jānbeglu), one of several Kurdish tribes transplanted from northwestern Persia to Māzandarān by Āḡā Moḥammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789-97).

  • JAHĀNGAŠT

    cross-reference

     See BOḴĀRI, SHAIKH JALĀL-AL-DIN.

  • JAHĀNGIR

    Lisa Balabanlilar

    the fourth Mughal emperor, the first of his dynasty to have been born in India (1569-1627).

  • JAHĀNGIR KHAN ŠIRĀZI

    cross-reference

    See ṢUR-E ESRĀFIL "pending".

  • JAHĀNGOŠĀ-YE JOVAYNI

    Charles Melville

    TĀRIḴ-E, title of the history of the Mongols composed in 1252-60 by the Il-khanid Persian vizier, ʿAlāʾ-al-Din Abu’l-Moẓaffar ʿAṭā-Malek Jovayni.

  • JAHĀNGOŠĀ-YE NĀDERI

    Ernest Tucker

    TĀRIḴ-E (or Tāriḵ-e nāderi), one of the most important chronicles of the reign of Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1736-47) by his court secretary, Mirzā Moḥammad-Mahdi Khan Estrābādi/Astarābādi.

  • JAHĀNŠĀH QARĀ QOYUNLU

    Cross-Reference

    See QARĀ QOYUNLU DYNASTY. Forthcoming.

  • JĀḤEẒ

    Michael Cooperson

    (b. ca. 776; d. 868-9), ABU ʿOṮMĀN ʿAMR B. BAḤR, the leading Arabic prose writer of the 9th century.

  • JAHM B. ṢAFWĀN

    Joseph van Ess

    (d. 746), ABU MOḤREZ, Islamic theologian of the Umayyad period. Documentation about him is scarce and not entirely reliable.