Jean-Pierre Digard
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE i. Ethnography
Territory and way of life. The Baḵtīārī tribe (īl) is one of the two biggest in Iran, the other being…
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ xi. Naṣīr Khan Ṣārem-al-Molk
Naṣīr Khan Ṣārem-al-Molk, then Sardār-e Jang (1864-1932), Baḵtīārī chief, fifth son of Emāmqolī Khan, known as Ḥājī Īlḵānī. As a…
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ ix. Mortażāqolī Khan
Mortażāqolī Khan (1876?-1961 ), one of the last Baḵtīārī chiefs to have played an important political role. The only son…
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ viii. Moḥammad-Taqī Khan
Moḥammad-Taqī Khan, the last and most famous of the great Khans from the Čahār Lang faction of the Baḵtīārī tribe…
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ vi. Loṭf-ʿAlī Khan Šojāʿ-al-Solṭān
Loṭf-ʿAlī Khan Šojāʿ-al-Solṭān, then Amīr-e Mofaḵḵam, Baḵtīārī chief (1862-1946), fourth son of Emāmqolī Khan, known as Ḥājī Īlḵānī. As chief…
- BAḴTĪĀRĪ iii. Ḡolām-Ḥosayn KhanŠehāb-al-Salṭana
Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Khan Šehāb-al-Salṭana, then Sardār(-e) Moḥtašam (1866?-1950), one of the few Baḵtīārī chiefs who played a national role after the…
- ASB-SAVĀRĪ
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
HERDS and FLOCKS. In the Iranian world, domestic herbivores have long been raised exclusively on natural grazing, as it is…
- CLOTHING xxv. Clothing of the Baḵtīārīs and other Lori speaking tribes
CLOTHING xxv. Clothing of the Baḵtīārīs and other Lori speaking tribes Members of the Lori-speaking ethnic groups, including the Lors…
- FELT
FELT (Mid. and New. Pers., namad), material produced by process of felting, the entanglement of animal fiber in all directions,…
- DOMESTIC ANIMALS
DOMESTIC ANIMALS (Pers. ḥaywān-e ahlī; cf. ahlīkardan/šodan “to domesticate, be domesticated”), a group of animals raised or maintained in captivity…
- DOG
Bibliography: J.-P. Digard, Techniques des nomades Baxtyâri, Cambridge and Paris, 1981. L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J., 1978; repr. Princeton, N.J., 1980. i….
- DĀM-DĀRĪ
DĀM-DĀRĪ (animal husbandry). The first known domestication of certain animals took place in various parts of Persia: Kurdistan, where sheep…
- ČŪPĀN
ČŪPĀN (or čōbān “shepherd”; Mid. Pers. and NPers. šobān; Orm. ṧwan, čupān, špōn; Yid. čupān, xəš(u)wān; Shugh., ṧibōne, čupān; Par….
- CATTLE
CATTLE. The word “cattle” has no precise equivalent in Iranian languages, in which bovines are commonly designated by the words…
- TENTS i. General Survey
TENTS in Iran i. General Survey Čādor “tent,” is a portable dwelling characteristic of certain nomad groups. It consists of…
- BOZ
BOZ, the domestic goat. The earliest evidence for the domestication of the goat has been found in Iran (ca. 10,000…
- GYPSY i. Gypsies of Persia
GYPSY i. GYPSIES OF PERSIA Gypsies are generally referred to by the term kowli in Persian, seemingly a distortion of…
- GYPSY
GYPSY. Gypsies are generally referred to by the term kowli in Persian, seemingly a distortion of kāboli, i.e., coming from…
- GUSFAND
GUSFAND (Mid. Pers. gōspand, sheep, ovine). In Persian a clear distinction is made between ewe (miš), ram (quč), and lamb…
- GABBA
GABBA (gava in Kurdish and Lori, Īzadpanāh, s.v.; ḵersak in Baḵtīārī, Digard, pp. 128-31), a hand-woven pile rug of coarse…
- CAT II. Persian Cat
In western Europe and in North America, what are called “Persian cats” are a breed of longhaired domestic cats with…