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JÉQUIER, GUSTAVE
Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam
During his five year residence in Persia, Jéquier sent home to his family many letters and accounts of his daily life in Persia and these were compiled and published posthumously as a volume entitled En Perse 1897-1902 by his son Michel Jéquier.
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JERGA
M. Jamil Hanifi
an assembly or council of local adult men, among the settled and nomadic Pashtun tribal communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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JERUSALEM AND IRAN
Hagith Sivan
Twice Jerusalem came under Persian rule, the first time in the sixth century BCE, the second during the westward expansion of the Sasanian state in the early seventh century CE.
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JESUITS IN SAFAVID PERSIA
Rudi Matthee
The Fathers of the Society of Jesus were the first European missionaries to enter the Persian Gulf in the 16th century. Their pioneer was the Dutchman Gaspar Barzaeus (Berze, 1515-53).
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JEVDET PASHA
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(1823-1895), Ottoman writer, historian, jurist, and statesman.
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JEVDET, ʿABD-ALLĀH
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(1869-1932), Ottoman poet, writer, translator, and thinker.
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JEVRI, AHISKALI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(1805-1875), Ottoman poet and translator, a professional soldier.
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JEVRI, EBRĀHIM ČELEBI
Osman G. Özgüdenli
(d. 1654), Ottoman poet and calligrapher.
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JEWISH EXILARCHATE
Jacob Neusner
position of the head of the Jewish community in Babylonia in talmudic and medieval times, recognized in Sasanian times as an ethnarch, ruler of the ethnic group.
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JEWS OF IRAN
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