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• JĀVDĀN-NĀMA

  Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

  the major work of Fażl-Allāh Astarābādi (d. 1394), the founder of the Ḥorufi movement.

• JĀVID, ʿABD-AL-AḤMAD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (1927-2002), educator and scholar of Persian literature and history.  

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• JĀVID-NĀMA

  David Matthews

  (Pers. Jāved-nāma), title of a Persian maṯnawi by Muhammad Iqbal, often rendered into English as “The Song of Eternity,” first published in 1932.

• JAWĀHER AL-ʿAJĀYEB

  Maria Szuppe

  a short, rare kind of taḏkera in Persian, containing biographies of female poets and specimens of their verses (mostly in Persian, some in Chaghatay Turkish).

• JAWĀHER-E ḴAMSA

  Carl W. Ernst

  title of a Persian work on Sufi meditation practices composed by the well-known and controversial Šaṭṭārī saint, Moḥammad Ḡawṯ Gwāleyārī (1500-1563).

• JAWĀHER-NĀMA

  Yves Porter

  the title of several Persian works on precious stones, gems, minerals, and metals, as well as on crafts related to them.

• JAWĀLIQI, HEŠĀM

  Abbas Kadhim

  b. Sālem, an Imami jurist and theologian of the 8th century. He was a close associate of the Imams Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq and Musā al-Kāẓem.

• JAWĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT

  Dariush Kargar

  the earliest and the most comprehensive collection of stories in the Persian language, compiled by Sadid-al-Din Moḥammad ʿAwfi (d. after 1232).

• JAWHARI, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH AḤMAD

  Abbas Kadhim

   b. Moḥammad b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. Ḥasan b. ʿAyyāš, 10th-century Imami transmitter of Hadith (d. 1010).

• JAXARTES

  Cross-Reference

  river in Central Asia. See SYR DARYA, forthcoming online.

• JAZĀʾERI, NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI

  Forthcoming

  NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI JAZĀʾERI will be discussed in a future online entry.

• JAZI, ʿABBĀS

  Habib Borjian

  , DARVIŠ (1847-1905), poet in the dialect of Gaz, an oasis north of Isfahan.

• JAZIRI

  Joyce Blau

  , SHAIKH AḤMAD, or Malâ-ye Jizrî, early Kurdish poet.

• JAŽN-Ā JAMĀʿIYA

  Khalil Jindy Rashow

  (Feast of the Assembly), the great communal festival of the Yazidis.

• JEBĀL

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  in Arabic, the plural of jabal “mountain,” a geographical term used in early Islamic times for the western part of Persia, roughly corresponding to ancient Media (Ar. māh).

• JEBHE-YE MELLI

  cross-reference

  See NATIONAL FRONT.

• JEBRIL B. ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH

  cross-reference

  See BOḴTIŠUʿ.

• JEH

  Albert de Jong

  name of a female demon in a small number of Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts. The name of Jeh is commonly, but with little justification, translated as “whore.”

• JEJEEBHOY, JAMSETJEE

  Jesse S. Palsetia

  , Sir (1783-1859), Parsi businessman and philanthropist. He was a product of the age of partnership and commercial collaboration begun with the introduction of European imperialism in Asia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The consignment of Indian opium to East Asia constituted his major business enterprise. His charitable projects and loyalty to the British garnered him honors and public acclaim.

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• JELD

  cross-reference

  See BOOKBINDING 1; BOOKBINDING 2.