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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).