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JAVĀNRUD
ʿAbd-Allāh Marduḵ and EIr.
a city and a sub-province (šahrestān) in the northwest of Kermānšāhān Province near the border with Iraq at about 110 km southwest of Sanandaj sub-province.
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JAVĀNŠIR QARĀBĀḠI, JAMĀL
George Bournoutian
(1773-1853), a leader of the Javānšir tribe and an office-holder in Qarābāḡ and Dagestan.
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JĀVDĀN-NĀMA
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
the major work of Fażl-Allāh Astarābādi (d. 1394), the founder of the Ḥorufi movement.
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JĀVID, ʿABD-AL-AḤMAD
Nassereddin Parvin
Following his passion for Persian literature, Jāvid enrolled at the Faculty of Literature at Tehran University and studied alongside a number of students who would later rise to prominence. After compiling the preliminary work for his dissertation, he returned to Kabul with B.A. degrees in literature and law and began to teach and conduct research.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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JAWHARI, ABU ʿABD-ALLĀH AḤMAD
Abbas Kadhim
b. Moḥammad b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. Ḥasan b. ʿAyyāš, 10th-century Imami transmitter of Hadith (d. 1010).
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JAXARTES
Cross-Reference
river in Central Asia. See SYR DARYA, forthcoming online.
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JAZĀʾERI, NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI
Forthcoming
NEʿMAT-ALLĀH ŠOŠTARI JAZĀʾERI will be discussed in a future online entry.
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JAZI, ʿABBĀS
Habib Borjian
(1847-1905), DARVIŠ, poet in the dialect of Gaz, an oasis north of Isfahan.
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JAZIRI
Joyce Blau
SHAIKH AḤMAD, or Malâ-ye Jizrî, early Kurdish poet.
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JAŽN-Ā JAMĀʿIYA
Khalil Jindy Rashow
(Feast of the Assembly), the great communal festival of the Yazidis.
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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).
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JEBHE-YE MELLI
cross-reference
See NATIONAL FRONT.
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JEBRIL B. ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH
cross-reference
See BOḴTIŠUʿ.
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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.”