Friday, August 25, 2017

The Aghajari Turks of Khuzestan (Mirza Hasan Fasāʾī, [1896] 1923)

Aqa Jari Tribe


 


The first of these three groups of nomads is the Aqa Jari tribe. They assign their origin to several Turkish, Persian, and Lur tribes.
In ancient times their households amounted from three to five thousand or even more, but now they number only about eight hundred. They are divided into a number of sub-tribes.
They remain in the neighbourhood of Bihbihan, which has the climate of the Garm-Sir (hot country) both winter and summer. Their abode in the winter is the black tent of the desert. In the summer they dwell in houses which they construct with the branches and leaves of the willow, and these are to be found on the banks of the rivers near Bihbihan.
In the rolling and hilly country they carry on agriculture without irrigation. Since they are not in the majority in the villages around Bihbihan, they have not given their name to that district.



D. Austin Lane, Hajji Mirza Hasan-i-Shirazi on the Nomad Tribes of Fars in the Fars-Nameh-i-Nasiri, JRAS 1923, p. 218.

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