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JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI ii. Work Jamalzadeh 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. He was only twelve when he left his…

JAMALZADEH, MOHAMMAD-ALI iii. Bibliography Most of Jamalzadeh’s work is presented in the body of the texts (i and ii above). Some of his work and major works on his life and writings are included in this bibliography. For a comprehensive list of his works in Persian, particularly the numerous articles…

JĀMĀSP, Sasanian king for a short period (ca. 496-97 CE). This entry is divided into two sections. i. Reign. ii. Coinage.

i. REIGN Jāmāsp or Zāmāsp (Middle Persian yʾmʾsp, zʾmʾsp; Greek Zamásphēs; Arabic Jāmāsb, Zāmāsb, Zāmāsf; New Persian Jāmāsp, Zāmāsp) ascended to the Sasanian 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…

ii. COINAGE Typology. The obverses of Jāmāsp’s coins are notable for the addition of a small bust, to the right of the king’s own, which wears a mural crown with a korymbos (a cloth element enclosing the hair). The figure faces left and holds a diadem. Göbl has argued that…

JĀMĀSPA (GAv. Də′ǰāmāspa; Elam. Zamašba, Za-mišba; Arm. Zmsp; Gk. Zamaspes; Akk. Za-ma-as-pa-a’), name of an official at the court of Vīštāspa and an early convert of Zarathushtra, who, in the tradition became widely known for his wisdom. Etymology. There is no certain etymology of the name. It is a compound…

JĀMĀSPASA, DASTUR JAMASPJI MINOCHERJI (b. Bombay, 1830; d. Bombay, 26 September 1898; FIGURE 1), Parsi priest and Iranologist. Dastur Jamaspji Minocherji JāmāspAsa was the offspring of a priestly family from the Bhagaria group/lineage (panth) from Navsari in Gujarat, India. Throughout the 19th century, the Jāmāsp-Asa family rivaled with the fellow…

JĀMEʿ AL-ḤEKĀYĀT (lit. Compiler of stories), one of the oldest and most common titles of mostly anonymous Persian story collections, dating from the 13th to the 19th century. Although various manuscripts of such collections have different titles, such as Jāmeʿ al-masāʾel and Jāmeʿ al-ḥekāyāt (Berlin, 1031; Pertsch, IV, p. 988),…

JĀMEʿ AL-TAMṮIL, a collection of Persian proverbs and their stories compiled in 1045/1644 by Moḥammad-ʿAli Ḥablarudi (variant readings Ḥilarudi, Jabal-rudi). The only known biographical information about the author is that he apparently originated from Māzandarān, lived in Golkonda, and evidently was attached to the court of ʿAbd-Allāh Qoṭbšāh (r. 1626-83)….

JĀMEʿ AL-TAVĀRIḴ-E ḤASANI, a Timurid universal chronicle written by Tāj-al-din Ḥasan b. Šahāb b. Ḥoseyn b. Tāj-al-din Yazdi (fl. 1453), who is also known as Ebn-e Šahāb-e Yazdi. It covers the history of the world from its creation until December 1451-January 1452, and includes a most valuable final section pertaining…

JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ (The Compendium of chronicles), the historical work composed in the period 1300-10 by Ḵᵛāja Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh Ṭabib Hamadāni, vizier to the Mongol Il-khans Ḡāzān (r. 1295-1304) and Öljeitü (Uljāytu; r. 1304-16), in response to commissions by both rulers. As its title suggests, the work is a compilation of…

JĀMEʿ al-TAWĀRIḴ ii. ILLUSTRATIONS Just as the text of Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh’s Jāmeʿ al-tawāriḵ can be regarded as groundbreaking historically, so too the illustrations to it are seminal for the study of art history. Although illustrated books had been produced earlier in Persia, from the turn of the 14th century they…