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Bakhtiyārī
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Bakhtiyārī (also Bakhtyārī), one of the nomadic, Lurī-speaking tribal groups of south-west Iran, although a large segment of them have now taken to sedentary living in both the summer quarters (yaylāq or sardsīr) and the winter quarters (qishlāq or garmsīr). According t…

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Karimi, Asghar and Translated by Hamid Reza Maghsoodi, “Bakhtiyārī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 08 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_00000048>
First published online: 2015



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