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JAHĀNĀRĀ BEGUM
Stephen Dale
(1614-81), the eldest surviving daughter of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān and his favorite wife, Momtāz Mahal.
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JAHĀNBEGLU
P. Oberling
(or Jānbeglu), one of several Kurdish tribes transplanted from northwestern Persia to Māzandarān by Āḡā Moḥammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789-97).
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JAHĀNGAŠT
cross-reference
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JAHĀNGIR
Lisa Balabanlilar
the fourth Mughal emperor, the first of his dynasty to have been born in India (1569-1627).
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JAHĀNGIR KHAN ŠIRĀZI
cross-reference
See ṢUR-E ESRĀFIL "pending".
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JAHĀNGOŠĀ-YE JOVAYNI
Charles Melville
TĀRIḴ-E, title of the history of the Mongols composed in 1252-60 by the Il-khanid Persian vizier, ʿAlāʾ-al-Din Abu’l-Moẓaffar ʿAṭā-Malek Jovayni.
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JAHĀNGOŠĀ-YE NĀDERI
Ernest Tucker
TĀRIḴ-E (or Tāriḵ-e nāderi), one of the most important chronicles of the reign of Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1736-47) by his court secretary, Mirzā Moḥammad-Mahdi Khan Estrābādi/Astarābādi.
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JAHĀNŠĀH QARĀ QOYUNLU
Cross-Reference
See QARĀ QOYUNLU DYNASTY. Forthcoming.
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JĀḤEẒ
Michael Cooperson
(b. ca. 776; d. 868-9), ABU ʿOṮMĀN ʿAMR B. BAḤR, the leading Arabic prose writer of the 9th century.
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JAHM B. ṢAFWĀN
Joseph van Ess
(d. 746), ABU MOḤREZ, Islamic theologian of the Umayyad period. Documentation about him is scarce and not entirely reliable.
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JAHN, KARL EMIL OSKAR
J. T. P. DE Bruijn
(1906-1985), Czech orientalist who specialized in Central Asian history, Persian historiography, and Turcology.
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JAHROM
SHIVA JA’FARI
city and sub-province (šahrestān) in central Fārs Province, covering an area of 4,517 sq. km.
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JAIPUR
Catherine B. Asher
city in northwestern India, founded in 1727 by the Kachhwaha prince (raja) and Mughal officer Sawai Jai Singh Kachhwaha (1688-1743). He built an observatory in Jaipur with enormous instruments for observing and calculating celestial phenomena
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JĀJARMI
Anna Livia Beelaert
MOḤAMMAD B. BADR, 14th-century Persian poet and anthologist.
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JĀJRUD
Bernard Hourcade
a major river of the southern slopes of the central Alborz in the Central Plateau (140 km. long, basin of 1,890 km²), running from the mountains of Šami-rānāt at Rudbār-e Qaṣrān to the plain of Varāmin and eventually joins the salt lake of Qom (Daryāča-ye Qom), at about 89 km to the northwest of the city.
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JĀKI
P. Oberling
a group of Lor tribes in the Kuhgiluya region of eastern Khuzesan. They comprise the tribal confederations of the Čahārboniča (or Čarboniča) and the Lirāvi.
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JAKKADI
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
a dance style performed by Persian women, as documented in Sanskrit treatises of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN ABU’L-QĀSEM TABRIZI
Farhan Nizami
(d. 1244-45), a prominent Sufi of the Sohravardiya Order. Started his education in Tabriz under Badr-al-Din Abu Saʿid Tabrizi.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN DAVĀNI
cross-reference
See DAVĀNI.
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JALĀL-AL-DIN ḤASAN III
FARHAD DAFTARY
(b. 1166-67; d. 1221), Nezāri Ismaʿili imam and the sixth lord of Alamut. He succeeded to the leadership of the Nezāridaʿwa (‘propaganda’ or ‘mission,’ see DĀʿI) and state on the death of his father, Nur-al-Din Moḥammad II b. Ḥasan II.