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JOWZJĀNI, ABU ʿOBAYD
Robert Wisnovsky
(Juzjāni), ABU ʿOBAYD ʿABD-AL-WĀḤED b. Moḥammad, companion, literary secretary, and biographer of Avicenna.
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JOWZJĀNI, MIR JUJOK
R. D. McChesney
a late 16th-century literary figure given the title malek al-šoʿarāʾ at Balkh by the Shibanid (Šaybānid) ruler there, ʿAbd-al-Moʾmen Khan (r. at Balkh 1583-98).
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JUB-E GOWHAR
Bruno Overlaet
an archeological site in the Eyvān plain, Ilām province (Poštkuh, Lorestān). A total of sixty-six tombs of a partially plundered graveyard were excavated in 1977 by the Belgian Archeological Mission in Iran, directed by Louis Vanden Berghe.
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JUBAN
Ali Hakemi
excavation site in Gilan Province, 54 km south of Rasht, 4 km south of Kalvarz, and 12 km from Rudbār. In 1966, after three months of excavations (mid-spring to mid-summer), the archeological association of Rudbār discovered here the remains of a civilization dating from the beginning to the middle of the first millennium BCE.
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JUBĀRA
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JUDAKI
Pierre Oberling
a small Lor tribe of the Ḵorramābād region in western Persia.
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JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES
Multiple Authors
OF IRAN, one of the oldest Jewish populations in the Diaspora.
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JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES i. INTRODUCTION
Houman Sarshar
Jewish communities have been living upon the Persian plateau since ca. 721 BCE, when King Sargon II (r. 721-705 BCE) relocated large communities of conquered Israelites.
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JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES ii. ACHAEMENID PERIOD
Mayer I. Gruber
The most significant chapter in the story of Jews and Judaism in Persia began 15 March 597 BCE, when King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia conquered Jerusalem and carried away as captives 10,000 Jews from Jerusalem and Judah.
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JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES iii. PARTHIAN AND SASANIAN PERIODS
Jacob Neusner
By the time the Parthians reached Babylonia, Jews had lived there, under Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Seleucid rule for more than four and a half centuries.