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The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars province in Iran. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. They are one of the five tribes of the larger Khamseh confederation. [2]: 1 The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that ...
Laleh Bakhtiar (1938–2020) Iranian and American Islamic and Sufi scholar; Najaf Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (1846–1930) Persian Prime Minister and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution; Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991) Prime Minister of Iran; Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932– 2001) Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza ...
Nomadic groups in Iran (3 C, 5 P) S. Saka (2 C, 28 P) Sarmatians (4 C, 18 P) Sauromatian culture (5 P) Scythians (7 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Iranian nomads"
Ageism was a feature of ancient Eurasian nomad culture. [19] Steppe societies placed a premium on the value of young males, as shown by their harsh treatment of older people. [20] The Alans held their elderly in low regard, and the Saka customarily executed people once they were too old to work. [20]
Grass (1925). The film's producers were mainly concerned with documenting a way of life that was unknown to all those outside the Bakhtiari realm. The film highlights the extreme hardships faced by nomadic peoples, as well as the bravery and ingenuity of the Bakhtiari on their migration in search of grass, which meant abundant seasonal pasture for their animals.
He was born in 1246 AH and died in 1313 AH. Mazoon has mystical and romantic poems in Persian and Qashqai languages and Shahbaz Shahbazi (collector of Qashqai poets) considers him the greatest Qashqai poet. [72] Mohammad Bahmanbeigi (26 Bahman 1298 – 11 May 1389) was a great writer of the Qashqai tribe and the founder of nomadic education in ...
The National Commission of UNESCO registered the population of Iran at 21 million in 1963, of whom two million (9.5%) were nomads. [25] Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of about 70 million.
The two major religions among Kurds in Iran are Islam and Yarsanism, while fewer Kurds adhere to Baháʼí Faith and Judaism. [14] There is disagreement on which is the largest denomination among Kurds; experts such as Richard N. Frye and Martin van Bruinessen argue that Sunni Islam (the Shafi'i branch [3]) is the majority religion, [15] [16] while researcher Anu Leinonen believes it is the ...