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  • JAPAN x. COLLECTIONS OF PERSIAN BOOKS IN JAPAN

    Cross-Reference

    Forthcoming, online.

  • JAPAN xi. COLLECTIONS OF PERSIAN ART IN JAPAN

    Toh Sugimura

    Persian works of art in Japanese collections may be classified into (1) artifacts brought through China and Korea up to early modern times, (2) purchases in art markets since the 19th century.

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  • JAPAN xii. TRANSLATIONS OF PERSIAN WORKS INTO JAPANESE

    Hashem Rajabzadeh

    Japanese readers were introduced to the Persian classics with translations of ʿOmar Ḵayyām’s Robāʿiyāt and Ferdowisi’s Šāh-nāma.

  • JAPAN xiii. TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE WORKS INTO PERSIAN

    Hashem Rajabzadeh

    Introduction of Japan to Persian readers began when Japanese military victories over China (1894-95) and, especially, Russia (1904-05) excited the interest of Iranians.

  • JĀRČI

    Charles Melville

    a public crier, announcer or herald, derived from the Mongol jar (proclamation, announcement). Criers or heralds naturally have a role in both civilian and military capacities.

  • JĀRČI-E MELLAT

    EIr.

    a weekly satirical newspaper published in Tehran, 1910-28 (with long interruptions).

  • JARI, TALL-E

    Yoshihiro Nishiaki

    a Fars Province site named for its two closely situated prehistoric mounds, Jari A and B. The two mounds are located approximately 12 km southeast of Persepolis.

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  • JARQUYA

    Habib Borjian

    district located in the eastern region of Isfahan Province. i. The district. ii. The dialect.

  • JARQUYA i. The District

    Habib Borjian

    Separated from Isfahan by the Šāhkuh range, Jarquya spreads over 6,500 km², stretching in a northwest-southeast direction to the wasteland that separates it from Abarquh.

  • JARQUYA ii. The Dialect

    Habib Borjian

    The dialect of Jarquya, together with those of Rudašt and Kuhpāya to its north, belongs to the Isfahani subgroup of the Central Dialects. Only about half of the villages of the district have retained their idioms, namely Ganjābād, Siān, Yangābād, Peykān, Mazraʿa-ʿArab, and Ḥaydarābād in Lower Jarquya, and Dastgerd, Kamālābād, Ḥasanābād, Ḵārā, and Yaḵčāl in Upper Jarquya.

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  • JARRĀḤI RIVER

    cross-reference

    See KHUZESTAN i. Geography.

  • JĀRUDIYA

    cross-reference

    See ZAIDIS.

  • JĀS

    D. T. Potts

    also written Jāšk (‘Jasques’ in English East India Company sources), a small Baluchi port on the Makrān coast with palm gardens.

  • JĀSK

    Daniel T. Potts

    a small Baluchi port on the Makrān coast with palm gardens, considered part of the Hormozgan province.

  • JAŠN

    cross-reference

    See GĀHANBĀR; FESTIVALS ii.

  • JĀSP

    cross-reference

    See MAḤALLĀT.

  • JĀT

    M. Jamil Hanifi

    a contested and ambiguous label for several non-food-producing peripatetic, itinerant communities in Afghanistan and the surrounding region.

  • JĀTAKASTAVA

    Mauro Maggi

    a Khotanese religious poem in praise (Skt. stava-) of the Buddha’s former births (Skt. jātaka-).

  • JAUBERT, PIERRE AMÉDÉE ÉMILIEN-PROBE

    Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

    In June 1806 Jaubert was received in audience by the shah in Tehran and presented a letter from Napoleon. Negotiations were carried out,  and the court offered him a large portrait of the shah.

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  • JAVĀNMARDI

    Mohsen Zakeri

    also fotowwa, denoting a wide variety of amorphous associations with initiation rituals and codes in the Islamic world, primarily in its eastern regions.