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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.