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• JONAYD-E NAQQĀŠ

  Barbara Brend

  a painter of the 14th century, known from one reference and one picture.

• JONDIŠĀBUR

  cross-reference

  See GONDĒŠĀPUR.

• JONES, WILLIAM

  Michael J. Franklin

  (1746-1794), Sir, orientalist and judge, noted for his enduring commitment to a syncretic East-West synthesis and unshakeable belief in cultural pluralism.

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• JONG

  David J. Roxburgh

  literary miscellany of Persian prose and poetry, and album of pictures and illustrations. Inventiveness in the production of jongs peaked in Persia in the 1400s and continued into the 1500s, when techniques such as découpage, gold-sprinkled, stenciled, and/or painted borders, and  colored inks or outline for calligraphy were introduced.

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• JONG-E ESFAHĀN

  Jalil Doostkhah

  (Isfahan anthology), an independent, avant-garde literary periodical, established in Isfahan in 1965 by a circle of literary men, irregularly producing 11 issues from 1965 to 1973. 

• JORBĀDAQĀN

  cross-reference

  See GOLPĀYAGĀN.

• JORBĀDAQĀNI, ABU’L-ŠARAF

  cross-reference

  See ABU’L-ŠARAF JORBĀDAQĀNI.

• JORDAN, SAMUEL MARTIN

  Michael Zirinsky

  In Jordan’s time, Iran was beset by Russian and British imperial aspirations, and many Iranians sought to buttress their country’s independence by drawing a third power into the balance. These Iranians saw the US as well-suited for this role because it then had no obvious imperial designs in the region.

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• JORJĀN

  cross-reference

  See GORGĀN.

• JORJĀNI, ZAYN-AL-DIN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALI

  Josef van Ess

  B. MOḤAMMAD B. ʿALI AL-ḤOSAYNI (1340-1413), prolific author and scholar of the early Timurid period.

• JORJĀNI, ZAYN-AL-DIN ESMĀʿIL

  Hušang Aʿlam

   better known as Sayyed Esmāʿil Jorjāni (b. Gorgān, 1043-44?; d. Marv, 1136-37), physician and author of Ḏaḵira-ye ḵᵛārazamšāhi, the largest encyclopedia of Galenic medicine in Persian. 

• JOSEPH

  Multiple Authors

  (Ar. Yusof), son of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The story of Joseph has always been a source of attractive subject matters for the exegetists of the Qurʾān, poets, miniaturists, and popular tales.

• JOSEPH i. IN PERSIAN LITERATURE

  Asghar Dadbeh

  As a love story with religious overtones, the romance of Yusof and Zolayḵā has always been among the very favorite themes of Persian poets.

• JOSEPH ii. In Qurʾānic Exegesis

  Annabel Keeler

  In the Qurʾān, the story of the prophet Joseph is unique in being related as one continuous narrative, making up almost the entirety of chapter (sura) 12.

• JOSEPH iii. IN PERSIAN ART

  Chad Kia

  The most appealing subject from the Joseph story has been the episode involving Potiphar’s wife, called Zolayḵā in Islamic lore. The popularity of the stories as a subject for lyrical and narrative poetry dates back to the Ghaznavid period.

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• JOSTANIDS

  Manouchehr Pezeshk

  also referred to as Āl-e Jostān and Āl-e Vahsudān, a local dynasty that ruled from Rudbār in Deylam, the mountainous district of Gilān during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

• JOURNALISM IN IRAN

  Multiple Authors

  the collection and editing of news for presentation through the public press during the Qajar, Pahlavi, and Post-Revolutionary periods.

• JOURNALISM i. Qajar Period

  Negin Nabavi

  For much of the Qajar period, journalism was a state-run domain. In the second half of the period,  newspapers began to appear increasingly.

• JOURNALISM ii. Pahlavi Period

  cross-reference

  See forthcoming online.

• JOURNALISM iii. Post-Revolution Era

  Hossein Shahidi

  At the time of the 1978-79 Revolution, there were about 100 newspapers in Iran, of which twenty-three were dailies. Within two years of the revolution, 700 new titles had appeared.