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• JALĀL-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD BALḴI, MAWLAWI

  cross-reference

  See RUMI. Forthcoming, online.

• JALĀL-AL-DIN TURĀNŠĀH

  cross-reference

  See MOZAFFARIDS.

• JALĀL-AL-MOLK

  cross-reference

  See IRAJ MIRZĀ.

• JALĀLĀBĀD

  Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

  a city, a valley, and an administrative unit of fluctuating scope within the Afghan state structure. The city is located in eastern Afghanistan at 1,885 feet above sea level in the north-central portion of an elongated oval valley that stretches approximately 80 miles east to west.

• JALĀLI

  Pierre Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of eastern Anatolia and northwestern Persia.

• JALĀLZĀDA

  Tahsın Yazici

  , MOṢṬAFĀ ÇELEBI, also known as “Koja Nişancı” (Ḵᵛāja Nešānči), Ottoman historian and administrator (b. ca. 1490-94; d. 1567).

• JALĀYER

  cross-reference

  See KHORASAN i. ETHNIC GROUPS.

• JALĀYER, ESMĀʿIL KHAN

  Manouchehr Broomand

  a prominent painter of the Qajar era, during the reign of Nāṣer-al-Din Shah (r. 1848-96). He was  noted for his work in the genres of irāni-sāzi (Iranian subjects, relatively unaffected by European influences) and ṭabiʿat-sāzi (fauna and flora in a European naturalistic mode).

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• JALĀYER-NĀMA

  cross-reference

  See QĀʾEM-MAQĀM.

• JALAYERIDS

  Peter Jackson

  dynasty of Mongol origin which ruled over Iraq, and for several decades also over northwestern Persia, from the collapse of the Il-khanate in the late 1330s until the early 9th/15th century.

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