J ouhari 136 Jurjani as " Jouhar-ul-Talun," " Jouhar-ul-Tarkib," Sec, the last- named work he wrote in 1820 A. D., 1235 A. H. J ouhari Farabi, (j'.b^' iA^^^y surname of Atu Nasr Isma'fl bin-Hammad. Although he was a Turk, yet he made such progress in the Arabic language, which he studied in Mesopotamia and Egypt, that he was styled " Imam-ul-Lughat," or master of the language. He is the author of a very large Arabic Dictionary entitled " Sahah-ul-Lughat," the purity of the tongue. He is often called after this work, " Sahib-us-Sahah" or the author of the Sahah. He is commonly called Farabi or Farabi-al-Turki, because he was a native of Farab in Turkistan. He died 1002 A. D., 393 A. H. Some au- thors say that his death took place in 992 A. D., 382 A. H. Jouhari Zargar, jt'jj lsj^-^'^, a poet who flourished in the time of Sulaiman Shah and Arsalan Shah of the house of Saljuk. He is the author of a poem containiag the story of " Amir Ahmad and Mahasti." Jounpur, JJt'j^, kings o{;vide Khwaja Jahan. Jouzi, isjj'^) vide Abu'l Faraj ibn-Jauzi. Joya, ^^^j poetical appellation of l^Iirza Darab Beg, a poet whose native country was Kashmir. He died in 1706 A. D., 1118 A. H., and is the author of a Diwan. The poetical name of his brother Mirza Kamran, was Goya. Juban Choban or Jovian, Amir, ij-'.^^ the tutor and general of the armies of Sultan Abii Sa'id Khan, son of Aljaitu, king of Persia. He was put to death by Malik Ghayas-uddm Kart in November, 1327 A. D., Muharram, 728 A. H., by order of the Sultan, because he refused to give him his daughter, Baghdad Khatun, in marriage. Vide Baghdad Khatun. Juber, ^-"J^j a companion of Muhammad. Judat, ^^J^, a poetical appellation.
Jughtai, (
Arabic characters) vide Chaghtai.
Jugal Kishor, JJ^^ an inhabitant of Dehli whose
poetical name was Sarwat. He was wakfl to the Nazim
of Bengal for several years.
Juji Khan, eJ^^ iS^J^j was the eldest son of Chingiz
Khan the Tartar, from whom he had received for his
share the wide regions of Kapchak ; but this prince died
a few months before his father in 1226 A. D., and left
his territories to his son Batu Khan, who conquered Eus-
sia and Bulgaria, and ravaged the countries of Poland,
Moravia, and Dalmatia, and had marched into Hungary
in order to attack Constantinople, when death ended his
victorious career.'
Juna Shah, JS'-^ ^yi-, a brother of Muhammad Tughlak
Shah, king of Dehlf, who built the city of Jounpur which
goes after his name.
Junaid Baghdadi, Shaikh, 'H*'^^
a celebrated ascetic whose father was a glass-blower of
Nah&wand. He was born and brought up at Baghdad,
and became one of the best disciples of Shafa'i, but
followed the system of Sufian Souri. He made thu-ty
pilgrimages to Mecca, alone and on foot. He died at
Baghdad in the j'ear 911 A. D., 298 A. H., and was
buried near the tomb of his master and maternal uncle.
Sari Saktf.
Junaid, Shaikh or Sultan, "H:^^ third in
descent fi-om the celebrated Shaikh Safi-uddin Ardibeli,
and grandfather of Shah Isma'il I of Persia, founder of the
Safwi d>Tiasty which was extirpated by Nadir Shah. He
was a Sufi or mystic philosopher, but being expelled
froni Azurbejan by the Turkman ruler Jahan Shah, es-
tablished himself in Daj^arbikar. In the latter period
of his life, he went to Shirwan with his disciples, and was
killed in 1456 A. D., 860 A. H., in a conflict with the
troops of Amir Khalil-uUah, ruler of that province. Vide
Isma'il I Safwi. The book called Nukkat Bedil, written
by Mirza Bedil, contains his Memou'S.
Jununi, ls^^^'^, author of a poem called " Lataef Shouk,"
a collection of entertaining and witty tales which he
composed in the year 1689 A. D., 1100 A. H., and dedi-
cated to the emperor 'Alamgir, but many were rather
obscene.
Jununi, Maulana, C5ij^^ ^^_?'*5 a sprightly satirical
poet of Hirat who flourished in the time of Amir Ghayas-
uddiu Sultan Husain, son of Firoz Shah about the" 9th
century of the Hijri era.
Jurat, poetical title of Kalandar Bakhsh, a son of
Yehia Aman and pupil of Hasrat. He was flrst supported
by Nawab Muhabbat Khan, but in 1800 A. D., 1215
A. H., he was in the service of prince Sulaiman Shikoh
at Lakhnau. Though in the prime of life, he became
blind, but became a good musician and an excellent
player on the guitar. It appears that Jurat and his family
had the family name of Yehia Man, because they said
that they were descended from Yehia Eae Man who re-
sided in a street at Dehlf which is close to the Chandni
Chouk, and is still called the Eae Man street. It is also
stated that this Eae Man was executed by Nadir Shah.
Jurat died in the year 1810 A. D., 1225 A. H. He is
the author of an Urdu Diwan and two Masnawis.
Jurir, j^, or Abu Hazra Jarir ibn-Atiya, was one of the
greatest and most celebrated poets. He flourished in the
reign of the Khalif ' Abdulmalik of the house of Umayya,
and received from him a handsome salary. He was once
rewarded by the prince for a single panegyrical ode, with
100 camels, 18 slaves and a silver jug. Abii'l Faraj ibn-
ul-Jauzi places the death of Jurir in the year 111 Hijri
or 729 A. D., Ill A. H., aged 80 years.
Jurir-ibn-'Abdullah, (Arabic characters) general of
the army in the time of 'Umar, the second Khalifa after
Muhammad,
Jurir-ibn-ul-Tabari, LS>■^^I <^-^ jir^) or Jurir-ut-Ta- bari, a celebrated Arabian historian, author of the " Tarfkh Tabari." He died in the year 922 A. D., 310 A. H. His son Muhammad, who was also an author, died in 942 A. D., 330 A. H. Vide Abu Ja'far-at-Tabari. Jurjani, cs^'^'^^j which see. Jurjani, (^^tf^j a native of Jurjan or Georgia. Al- Sayyad-ush-Sharif Abu'l Hasan (or Husain) 'Alf, was thus surnamed because he was born in that country. He was one of the most celebrated Musalman doctors ; was born in 1339 A. D., 740 A. H., and died at Shiraz 1413 A. D., 816 A. H. There have been several other authors of this surname, as Al-Sharif-al-Husainf, a son of the first, who was a famous physician and lived in the time of Atsiz, Sultan of the Khwarizmians. Also Abu'l Wafa, a mathematician, Abu Bakr bin-'Abdul Kahir, a gram- marian, and Muhammad Jirjani, a valiant captain of the Sultan of Khwarizm, and governor of the city of Hirat who was killed in defending that place against Toll Khan, son of Changez Khan.
