Shefi Khan Afshar
The
Suhuni is a large tribe of I’liyat; the chief, Shefi Khan, is a liberal and
able man, and was the wezir of Mohammed Taki. Having been long accustomed to
collect the annual tribute of the tribes, and to devote his attention to their
internal polity, he was better acquainted with the state and history of the
Bakhtiyaris than any other man I met with in the country. Although the Chief of
the tribe, he is not a member of it, but of an Afshar family long settled in
the mountains. He was for some years in Teheran, and served as major in the
Bakhtiyari regiment disciplined by Major Hart. The Garmesirs of the Suhuni were
originally in Andakau and Shimbar to the north of the Karun, but being strongly
attached to Mohammed Taki, they crossed the river and settled in Gulgir and
A’smari. This tribe has both good horse and matchlock men. They cultivate corn
and barley, to the growth of which the land they occupy is particularly
favourable. Since the fall of Mahommed Taki, the Suhuni have recrossed the
Karun, and placed themselves under Mohammed Meti and Ja’fer Kuli. Shefi, their
chief, is now a fugitive in the mountains.
A. H. Layard — A Description of the Province of
Khúzistán (1846)
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