Guran (Kurdish tribe)

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 the Iran-Iraq border. Although the vast majority of Guran people follow Islam, some Gurans in Dalahou county in Kermanshah Province are followers of Yarsanism. They speak the Gurani dialect of Kurdish, which is very similar to the Hawrami dialects, a kind of Gorani language. The Kurdish Shahnameh was written in the Gurani dialect and is sacred to the followers of Yarsan. Strabon mentions a tribe of Medes with the name called Gouranioi.

For rural municipality in Nepal, see Gurans, Dailekh.
A Gurani child in Kurdish costume

Branches

The Guran tribe consist of the following 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 (2004-05-14). The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. p. 307. ISBN 9781850434160.
  3. Edmonds, Cecil (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in northeastern Iraq, 1919-1925. Oxford University Press.
  4. "?" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2017-02-10.
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