Table of Contents
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JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ
Charles Melville
(The Compendium of chronicles), historical work composed in 1300-10 by Ḵᵛāja Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh Ṭabib Hamadāni, vizier to the Mongol Il-khans Ḡāzān and Öljeitü.
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JĀMEʿ al-TAWĀRIḴ ii. Illustrations
Sheila S. Blair
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.
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JĀMEʿ-E ʿABBĀSI
Sajjad Rizvi
a Persian manual on foruʿ al-feqh (positive rules derived from the sources of legal knowledge) in Shiʿism.
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JĀMEʿA
cross-reference
See ZIĀRAT-E JĀMEʿA.
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JĀMEʿA-YE LISĀNSIAHĀ-YE DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLI
Ahmad Birashk
the Association of graduates of the Teacher Training College, founded in 1932 by its first two graduating classes.
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JĀMI
Multiple Authors
ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN NUR-AL-DIN b. Neẓām-al-Din Aḥmad-e Dašti, Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi (1414-1492).
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JĀMI i. Life and Works
Paul Losensky
though born in the hamlet of Ḵarjerd, Jāmi would take his penname from the nearby village of Jām (lying about midway between Mashad and Herat), where he spent his childhood.
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JĀMI ii. And Sufism
Hamid Algar
among the several facets of Jāmi’s persona and career—Sufi, scholar, poet, associate of rulers—it may be permissible to award primacy to the first mentioned.
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JĀMI iii. And Persian Art
Chad Kia
Jāmi’s writings are among the most frequently illustrated in the history of Persian manuscript painting.
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JĀMI RUMI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(or Jāmi Meṣri), AḤMAD, Ottoman official, poet, and translator (fl. 10th/16th century).
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JAMʿIYAT-E HELĀL-E AḤMAR-E IRĀN
Farid Ghassemlou
a non-governmental humanitarian organization affiliated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); founded in 1919 to promote health activities.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI
Ali Rahnema
(Society of Islamic Coalition), a religious-political organization founded in 1963 to propagate Ayatollah Khomeini’s vision of an Islamic-Iranian state and society and to mobilize the population to implement that vision.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI i. Hayʾathā-ye Moʾtalefa-ye Eslāmi 1963-79
Ali Rahnema
The Islamic Coalition of Mourning Groups was born almost two years after the death of Ayatollah Ḥosayn Ṭabāṭabāʾi Borujerdi in 1961.
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JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI ii. Jamʿiyat-e Moʾtalefa and the Islamic Revolution
Ali Rahnema
After the 1979 Revolution, the “Coalition of Islamic Mourning Groups” changed its expressive and meaningful name to the rather awkward appellation of Jamʿiyat-e moʾtalefa-ye eslāmi (the Society of Islamic Coalition).
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JAMḴĀNA
cross-reference
See AḤL-E ḤAQQ.
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JAMKARĀN
Jean Calmard
village near Qom, located 6 km south of it on the Qom-Kashan highway. It includes the mazraʿas of Gorgābi (Hādi-Mehdi) and Zangābād, the ruins of Gabri castle, and the Jamkarān or Ṣāḥeb-al-Zamān mosque.
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JAMSHIDI TRIBE
Christine Noelle-Karimi
(Jamšidi) one of several semi-nomadic, Persian-speaking, Hanafite Sunni groups of northwestern Afghanistan known as aymāq.
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JAMŠID
Multiple Authors
(or Jam), mythical king of Iran; Avestan Yima (Old Indic Yama), with the epithet xšaēta.
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JAMŠID B. MASʿUD ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN KĀŠI
cross-reference
See KĀŠI.
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JAMŠID i. Myth of Jamšid
PRODS OKTOR SKJÆRVØ
In the Avesta, he ruled the world in a golden age; he saved living beings from a natural catastrophe by preserving specimens in his var- (fortress); he possessed the most Fortune among mortals, but lost it and his kingship as a consequence of lying.