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  • JAM, MAḤMUD

    Ali Sadeghi

    , titled Modir-al-Molk (1885-1969), prime minister under Reżā Shah.

  • JAMĀL-AL-DIN ʿASADĀBĀDI

    cross-reference

    See AFGANI.

  • JAMĀL-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD EṢFAHĀNI

    D. DURAND-GUÉDY

    poet and painter of the second half of the 12th century.

  • JAMĀLI ṢUFI

    Maryam Ekhtiari

    , PIR YAḤYĀ, calligrapher of the mid-8th/14th century who worked in Shiraz in the 740s/1340s.

  • JAMĀLI, ḤĀMED B. FAŻL-ALLĀH

    A. A. Seyed-Gohrab

    Persian-speaking Indian poet (b. Delhi, ca. 862/1457; d. Gujarat, 942/1535).

  • JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI

    Multiple Authors

    prominent Iranian intellectual, a pioneer of modern Persian prose fiction and of the genre of the short story (1892-1997).

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  • JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI i. Life

    Nahid Mozaffari

    , the eldest of five children, was born in 1892 in Isfahan.

  • JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI ii. Work

    Hassan Kamshad and Nahid Mozaffari

    holds a place of singular distinction in the history of modern Persian literature and letters. An innovator of the modern literary language, he was the first to introduce the techniques of European short-story writing in Persian literature.

  • JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI iii. Bibliography

    Nahid Mozaffari

    a bibliography of Jamalzadeh’s work.

  • JĀMĀSP

    Jamsheed K. Choksy, Nikolaus Schindel

    Sasanian king. He ascended to the throne in 496 (or possibly early 497) when his brother, the king of kings Kawād I, was deposed.  Jāmāsp, like Kawād, was a son of the Sasanian ruler Pērōz (r. 459-84).  

  • Jāmāsp i. REIGN

    JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY

    Jāmāsp or Zāmāsp (Middle Persian yʾmʾsp, zʾmʾsp; Greek Zamásphēs; Arabic Jāmāsb, Zāmāsb, Zāmāsf; New Persian Jāmāsp, Zāmāsp) ascended to the Sasanian throne in 496.

  • Jāmāsp ii. Coinage

    NIKOLAUS SCHINDEL

    The obverses of Jāmāsp’s coins are notable for the addition of a small bust, to the right of the king’s own, which wears a mural crown with a korymbos (a cloth element enclosing the hair).

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  • JĀMĀSP-NĀMA

    Cross-Reference

    See AYĀDGĀR I JĀMĀSPIG.

  • JĀMĀSPA

    W. W. Malandra

    an official at the court of Vīštāspa and an early convert of Zarathushtra, who, in the tradition became widely known for his wisdom.

  • JĀMĀSPASA, Dastur JAMASPJI MINOCHERJI

    Ramiyar P. Karanjia and Michael Stausberg

    (1830-1898), Parsi priest and Iranologist, offspring of a priestly family from Navsari in Gujarat, India. As a high priest he guided and supervised the consecration of several fire temples, not only in Bombay but all over India. He possessed a vast collection of important Zoroastrian manuscripts, and his publication Pahlavi texts (1897-1913) made these  available to a larger audience.

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  • JĀMĀSPI

    Cross-Reference

    See AYĀDGĀR I JĀMĀSPIG.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT

    Dariush Kargar

    (lit. Compiler of stories), one of the oldest and most common titles of mostly anonymous Persian story collections, dating from the 13th to the 19th century.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKMATAYN

    cross-reference

    See NĀṢER-E ḴOSROW.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-ʿOLUM

    cross-reference

    See ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, PERSIAN.

  • JĀMEʿ AL-TAMṮIL

    Ulrich Marzolph

    a collection of Persian proverbs and their stories compiled in 1045/1644 by Moḥammad-ʿAli Ḥablarudi.