BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE i. Ethnography. ii. The Baḵtīārī dialect. iii. Baḵtīārī carpets.   i. Ethnography Territory and way of life. The…

BAḴTĪĀRĪ, the nesba of a number of Baḵtīārī chiefs in the 18th-20th centuries: Abu’l-Fatḥ Khan. See Abu’l-Fatḥ Khan Baḵtīārī. Ḥājī ʿAlīqolī Khan Sardār…

ASB-SAVĀRĪ (Horse-riding). The Iranian lands, in the course of their long history, have been the source of major advances in…

HERDS and FLOCKS. In the Iranian world, domestic herbivores have long been raised exclusively on natural grazing, as it is…