Guran (Kurdish tribe)

A Gurani child in Kurdish costume

Guran or Goran (Kurdish: گوران‎) is a Kurdish tribe.[1][2][3] They live in some regions of Iranian Kurdistan like Hawraman and Dalahu near Iran-Iraqi border. Although the vast majority of Guran people follow Islam, some Gurans in Dalahou county in Kermanshah Province are very old followers of Sultan Sahak and Yarsanism religion. They speak Gurani dialect of Kurdish, a very similar to Hawrami dialects, a kind of Gorani language. The Kurdish Shahnameh has been written in Gurani dialect and is sacred to the followers of Yarsan. Strabon also mentions the western and northwestern tribes of Medes, He also mentioned a Mede's tribe that called Gouranioi.

Branches

The Guran tribe consist of 4 clans:[4]

  1. Bivaniji
  2. Shwankare
  3. Tofanghchi
  4. Kerendi
  5. Yasemi
  6. Ghalkhani
  7. Ghale Zanjiri

Sources

  1. ↑ KURDISH TRIBES. Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  2. ↑ Jwaideh, Wadie. The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. p. 307.
  3. ↑ Edmonds, Cecil (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in northeastern Iraq, 1919-1925. Oxford University Press.
  4. ↑ "?" (in Persian).
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