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Jx3 Table of Contents SHOWING 101-150 of 291 JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ II. ILLUSTRATIONS SHEILA S. BLAIR Just as the text of Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh’s Jāmeʿ al-tawāriḵ can be regarded as groundbreaking historically, so too the illustrations to it are seminal for the study of art history. JĀMEʿ-E ʿABBĀSI SAJJAD RIZVI a Persian manual on foruʿ al-feqh (positive rules derived from the sources of legal knowledge) in Shiʿism. JĀMEʿA CROSS-REFERENCE See ZIĀRAT-E JĀMEʿA. JĀMEʿA-YE LISĀNSIAHĀ-YE DĀNEŠ-SARĀ-YE ʿĀLI AHMAD BIRASHK the Association of graduates of the Teacher Training College, founded in 1932 by its first two graduating classes. JĀMI MULTIPLE AUTHORS , ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN NUR-AL-DIN b. Neẓām-al-Din Aḥmad-e Dašti, Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi (1414-1492). Over almost fifty years, he turned his hand to every genre of Persian poetry and penned numerous treatises on a wide range of topics in the humanities and religious sciences. JĀMI I. LIFE AND WORKS PAUL LOSENSKY though born in the hamlet of Ḵarjerd, Jāmi would take his penname from the nearby village of Jām (lying about midway between Mashad and Herat), where he spent his childhood. JĀMI II. AND SUFISM HAMID ALGAR among the several facets of Jāmi’s persona and career—Sufi, scholar, poet, associate of rulers—it may be permissible to award primacy to the first mentioned. JĀMI III. AND PERSIAN ART CHAD KIA Jāmi’s writings are among the most frequently illustrated in the history of Persian manuscript painting. JĀMI RUMI OSMAN G. ÖZGÜDENLI (or Jāmi Meṣri), AḤMAD, Ottoman official, poet, and translator (fl. 10th/16th century). JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI ALI RAHNEMA (Society of Islamic Coalition), a religious-political organization founded in 1963 to propagate Ayatollah Khomeini’s vision of an Islamic-Iranian state and society and to mobilize the population to implement that vision. JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI I. HAYʾATHĀ-YE MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI 1963-79 ALI RAHNEMA The Islamic Coalition of Mourning Groups was born almost two years after the death of Ayatollah Ḥosayn Ṭabāṭabāʾi Borujerdi in 1961. JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI II. JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA AND THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION ALI RAHNEMA After the 1979 Revolution, the “Coalition of Islamic Mourning Groups” changed its expressive and meaningful name to the rather awkward appellation of Jamʿiyat-e moʾtalefa-ye eslāmi (the Society of Islamic Coalition). JAMḴĀNA CROSS-REFERENCE See AḤL-E ḤAQQ. JAMKARĀN JEAN CALMARD village near Qom, located 6 km south of it on the Qom-Kashan highway. It includes the mazraʿas of Gorgābi (Hādi-Mehdi) and Zangābād, the ruins of Gabri castle, and the Jamkarān or Ṣāḥeb-al- Zamān mosque. JAMSHIDI TRIBE CHRISTINE NOELLE-KARIMI (Jamšidi) one of several semi-nomadic, Persian-speaking, Hanafite Sunni groups of northwestern Afghanistan known as aymāq. JAMŠID MULTIPLE AUTHORS (or Jam), mythical king of Iran; Avestan Yima (Old Indic Yama), with the epithet xšaēta. JAMŠID B. MASʿUD ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN KĀŠI CROSS-REFERENCE See KĀŠI. JAMŠID I. MYTH OF JAMŠID PRODS OKTOR SKJÆRVØ In the Avesta, he ruled the world in a golden age; he saved living beings from a natural catastrophe by preserving specimens in his var- (fortress); he possessed the most Fortune among mortals, but lost it and his kingship as a consequence of lying. JAMŠID II. IN PERSIAN LITERATURE MAHMOUD OMIDSALAR Sources all agree that he reigned for several hundred years, but they differ on the exact length of his rule. JĀN MOḤAMMAD KHAN BĀQER ʿĀQELI , AMIR ʿALĀʾI (1886-1951), brigadier general and commander of Khorasan army during the early Reżā Shah period, noted for his ruthlessness but eventually undone due to a mutiny of unpaid troops. This Article Has Images/Tables. JANĀB CROSS-REFERENCE See ALQĀB VA ʿANĀWIN. JANĀB DAMĀVANDI S. A. MIR ʿALINAQI (1867-1973), popular name of Moḥammad Fallāḥi, a vocalist of the late Qajar period. JAND C. EDMUND BOSWORTH a medieval Islamic town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes in Central Asia some 350 km from where the river enters the Aral Sea. JANDAQ M. BADANJ a town and rural district (dehestān) in the Ḵor and Biābānak district (baḵš) of Nāʾin sub-province in the province of Isfahan. JANGALI MOVEMENT PEZHMANN DAILAMI (1915-20), under the leadership of Mirzā Kuček Khan Jangali, in response to the political decay during World War I and the occupation of Iran by Anglo-Russian and Ottoman troops. JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI ŠĀMLU RUDI MATTHEE (d. 1645), išik-āqāsi-bāši (master of ceremony) and qurči-bāši (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629-42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642-66). JANNĀBA CROSS-REFERENCE term used by early Muslim geographers to refer to the county (šahrestān) and port city on the Persian Gulf in the province of Būšehr. See GANĀVA. JANNĀBI, ABU SAʿID CROSS-REFERENCE 11th-century vizier and man of letters. See, ĀBI, ABU SAʿID. JAPAN MULTIPLE AUTHORS AND ITS RELATIONS WITH IRAN. The subject of contact between the two countries will be discussed in the following sub-entries. JAPAN I. INTRODUCTION C. J. BRUNNER Direct contact and observation of each other by Persians and Japanese would wait for the establishment of Japan’s relations with the world by the modernizing administration of the Meiji period (1868-1912). JAPAN II. DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH IRAN NOBUAKI KONDO Although it is not clear when Iran initiated diplomatic contact with Japan, it is believed to have been in 1873, when Nāṣer-al-Din Shah, on his first trip to Europe, met Naonobu Sameshima of Satsuma, who was the then Japanese ambassador to Paris, France. The shah did not include many details about the meeting in his memoir. This Article Has Images/Tables. JAPAN III. JAPANESE TRAVELERS TO PERSIA TADAHIKO OHTSU AND HASHEM RAJABZADEH It was only in 1854 that relations with foreign countries were resumed. This process gathered pace with the advent of the Meiji period (1868-1912), when the Japanese were allowed to go on official visits abroad. JAPAN IV. IRANIANS IN JAPAN TOYOKO MORITA Among the foreigners in Japan, Iranians total about 5,000 people, constituting a small minority group. JAPAN V. ARCHEOLOGICAL MISSIONS TO PERSIA TOH SUGIMURA After World War II Japanese archeologists could not continue their work on sites in Korea and China, and their expertise became available for research in the Middle East and Persia. JAPAN VI. IRANIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN, PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD TAKESHI AOKI Ancient Iranian studies in Japan started at the beginning of the 20th century in Tokyo and Kyoto independently. JAPAN VII. IRANIAN STUDIES, ISLAMIC PERIOD CROSS-REFERENCE Forthcoming, Online. JAPAN VIII. SAFAVID STUDIES IN JAPAN MASASHI HANEDA The genesis of Safavid studies in Japan was an outgrowth of the interest in the history of the Mongols and the Turkic people, which is a significant point characterizing Safavid studies there. JAPAN IX. CENTERS FOR PERSIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN HASHEM RAJABZADEH Formal undergraduate and graduate programs of Persian studies in Japan are offered at Osaka University School of Foreign Studies and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. JAPAN X. COLLECTIONS OF PERSIAN BOOKS IN JAPAN CROSS-REFERENCE Forthcoming, online. JAPAN XI. COLLECTIONS OF PERSIAN ART IN JAPAN TOH SUGIMURA Persian works of art in Japanese collections may be classified into (1) artifacts brought through China and Korea up to early modern times, (2) purchases in art markets since the 19th century. This Article Has Images/Tables. JAPAN XII. TRANSLATIONS OF PERSIAN WORKS INTO JAPANESE HASHEM RAJABZADEH Japanese readers were introduced to the Persian classics with translations of ʿOmar Ḵayyām’s Robāʿiyāt and Ferdowisi’s Šāh- nāma. JAPAN XIII. TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE WORKS INTO PERSIAN HASHEM RAJABZADEH Introduction of Japan to Persian readers began when Japanese military victories over China (1894-95) and, especially, Russia (1904-05) excited the interest of Iranians. JĀRČI CHARLES MELVILLE a public crier, announcer or herald, derived from the Mongol jar (proclamation, announcement). Criers or heralds naturally have a role in both civilian and military capacities. JĀRČI-E MELLAT EIR. a weekly satirical newspaper published in Tehran, 1910-28 (with long interruptions). JARI, TALL-E YOSHIHIRO NISHIAKI a Fars Province site named for its two closely situated prehistoric mounds, Jari A and B. The two mounds are located approximately 12 km southeast of Persepolis. This Article Has Images/Tables. JARQUYA HABIB BORJIAN district located in the eastern region of Isfahan Province. i. The district. ii. The dialect. JARQUYA I. THE DISTRICT HABIB BORJIAN Separated from Isfahan by the Šāhkuh range, Jarquya spreads over 6,500 km², stretching in a northwest-southeast direction to the wasteland that separates it from Abarquh. JARQUYA II. THE DIALECT HABIB BORJIAN The dialect of Jarquya, together with those of Rudašt and Kuhpāya to its north, belongs to the Isfahani subgroup of the Central Dialects. Only about half of the villages of the district have retained their idioms, namely Ganjābād, Siān, Yangābād, Peykān, Mazraʿa- ʿArab, and Ḥaydarābād in Lower Jarquya, and Dastgerd, Kamālābād, Ḥasanābād, Ḵārā, and Yaḵčāl in Upper Jarquya. This Article Has Images/Tables. JARRĀḤI RIVER CROSS-REFERENCE See KHUZESTAN i. Geography. JĀRUDIYA CROSS-REFERENCE See ZAIDIS..