Friday, August 25, 2017

The Aghevli Turks of the Fars Province (Mirza Hasan Fasāʾī, [1896] 1923)

Agh Aughli


 


This tribe consists of about seventy or eighty households, and originally came from Turkestan along with the Bayat and Qashqai tribes to Fars, where they settled in Shiraz. Up to the present Turkish has remained their language.
Like one branch of the Bayat tribe they became merchants. Most of them deal in hides and tallow, while the wealthier among them export Persian horses to India.
This tribe has produced many famous theologians and lawyers.



D. Austin Lane, Hajji Mirza Hasan-i-Shirazi on the Nomad Tribes of Fars in the Fars-Nameh-i-Nasiri, JRAS 1923, p. 231.

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