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  • JAMŠID ii. In Persian Literature

    Mahmoud Omidsalar

    Sources all agree that he reigned for several hundred years, but they differ on the exact length of his rule.

  • JĀN MOḤAMMAD KHAN

    Bāqer ʿĀqeli

    (1886-1951), AMIR ʿALĀʾI, brigadier general and commander of Khorasan army during the early Reżā Shah period, noted for his ruthlessness but eventually undone due to a mutiny of unpaid troops.

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  • JANĀB

    cross-reference

    See ALQĀB VA ʿANĀWIN.

  • JANĀB DAMĀVANDI

    S. A. Mir ʿAlinaqi

    (1867-1973), popular name of Moḥammad Fallāḥi, a vocalist of the late Qajar period.

  • JAND

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    a medieval Islamic town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes in Central Asia some 350 km from where the river enters the Aral Sea.

  • JANDAQ

    M. Badanj

    a town and rural district (dehestān) in the Ḵor and Biābānak district (baḵš) of Nāʾin sub-province in the province of Isfahan.

  • JANGALI MOVEMENT

    Pezhmann Dailami

    (1915-20), under the leadership of Mirzā Kuček Khan Jangali, in response to the political decay during World War I and the occupation of Iran by Anglo-Russian and Ottoman troops.

  • JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI ŠĀMLU

    Rudi Matthee

    (d. 1645), išik-āqāsi-bāši (master of ceremony) and qurči-bāši (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629-42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642-66).

  • JANNĀBA

    Cross-Reference

    term used by early Muslim geographers to refer to the county (šahrestān) and port city on the Persian Gulf in the province of Būšehr. See GANĀVA.

  • JANNĀBI, ABU SAʿID

    Cross-Reference

    11th-century vizier and man of letters. See, ĀBI, ABU SAʿID.

  • JAPAN

    Multiple Authors

    AND ITS RELATIONS WITH IRAN. The subject of contact between the two countries will be discussed in the following sub-entries.

  • JAPAN i. Introduction

    C. J. Brunner

    Direct contact and observation of each other by Persians and Japanese would wait for the establishment of Japan’s relations with the world by the modernizing administration of the Meiji period (1868-1912).

  • JAPAN ii. Diplomatic and Commercial Relations with Iran

    Nobuaki Kondo

    Iranian diplomatic contact with Japan is believed to date from 1873, when Nāṣer-al-Din Shah, on his first trip to Europe, met Naonobu Sameshima of Satsuma, who was the then Japanese ambassador to Paris, France.

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  • Japan iii. Japanese Travelers to Persia

    Tadahiko Ohtsu and Hashem Rajabzadeh

    It was only in 1854 that relations with foreign countries were resumed. This process gathered pace with the advent of the Meiji period (1868-1912), when the Japanese were allowed to go on official visits abroad.

  • JAPAN iv. Iranians in Japan

    Toyoko Morita

    Among the foreigners in Japan, Iranians total about 5,000 people, constituting a small minority group.

  • JAPAN v. ARCHEOLOGICAL MISSIONS TO PERSIA

    Toh Sugimura

    After World War II Japanese archeologists could not continue their work on sites in Korea and China, and their expertise became available for research in the Middle East and Persia.

  • JAPAN vi. IRANIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN, PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD

    Takeshi Aoki

    Ancient Iranian studies in Japan started at the beginning of the 20th century in Tokyo and Kyoto independently.

  • JAPAN vii. IRANIAN STUDIES, ISLAMIC PERIOD

    Cross-Reference

     Forthcoming, Online.

  • JAPAN viii. SAFAVID STUDIES IN JAPAN

    Masashi Haneda

    The genesis of Safavid studies in Japan was an outgrowth of the interest in the history of the Mongols and the Turkic people, which is a significant point characterizing Safavid studies there.

  • JAPAN ix. Centers for Persian Studies in Japan

    Hashem Rajabzadeh

    Formal undergraduate and graduate programs of Persian studies in Japan are offered at Osaka University School of Foreign Studies and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.