Friday, August 25, 2017

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

Nafar Tribe


 


They speak Turkish and therefore must have come from among the nomads of Turkestan. As has been mentioned before, Hajji Husayn Khan Nafar became chief of the Baharlu and Nafar tribes during the reign of Nadir Shah. His son, Muhammad Taqi Khan Nafar succeeded him.
The latter’s son Ali Akbar khan, who in turn was head of the two tribes, spent several years in the service of Hajji Muhammad Husayn Khan, Governor of Isfahan, where he learned the art of prosody and rhyme. He was the governor’s private secretary for some time.
The Nafars are divided into sixteen sub-tribes.



D. Austin Lane, Hajji Mirza Hasan-i-Shirazi on the Nomad Tribes of Fars in the Fars-Nameh-i-Nasiri, JRAS 1923, pp. 214—215.

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