The Mukri tribe is a Kurdish tribe residing in Mukriyan, Iranian Kurdistan. Mukri princes made up the elite-ruling class of the emirate of Mukriyan, while the Dehbruki tribe made up the majority of the rural petty-ruling class.[1]
History
editThe Mukri are notable for having produced many distinguished figures, such as Peshewa Qazi Muhammad, and Aziz Khan Mukri who served as commander-in-chief of the Qajar Army from 1853 to 1857.[2]
Abbas I of Persia married a Mukri noblewoman and daughter of the Mukri governor of Maragheh in 1610 CE after defeating the Mukri in the Siege of Dimdim and executing her brother and his men; despite being a relatively young bride, she was known to be previously popular among the Mukri.[3][4]
Mukri women traditionally mixed with men and did not veil, it was also standard for Mukris to greet guests with cheek kisses even between opposite genders. However, despite their free association with men, women had to, historically, abide to the Mukri patriarchal code to "retain their honor” such as not engaging in adultery,[5][6] which includes subtle romance such as courtship and romantic relationships with the absence of fornication which was otherwise tolerated by the surrounding semi-nomadic Kurdish Bolbas tribes like the Mangur, whose tribeswomen enjoyed greater freedoms compared to urban women of the Mukri.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hassanpour, Amir (1989). "BŪKĀN". Encyclopedia Iranica. IV.
- ^ Oberling 2000.
- ^ Butler, Herbert (2012). Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart: Travels in Africa, Persia, and Asia the Great : Some Years Travels Into Africa and Asia the Great, Especially Describing the Famous Empires of Persia and Hindustan, as Also Divers Other Kingdoms in the Oriental Indies, 1627-30, the 1677 Version. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). p. 403. ISBN 978-0-86698-475-1.
- ^ American Society of Genealogists. 1997. p. 244.
- ^ Hassanpour, Amir (September 1, 2001). WOMEN OF A NON-STATE NATION (Kurdish Studies Series, Volume 3 ed.). University of Toronto: Mazda. pp. The (Re)production of Patriarchy in the Kurdish Language. ISBN 1-56859-093-8.
- ^ Rosskeen Gibb, Hamilton Alexander (1954). The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Volume 4 ed.). Brill. pp. 188–192.
- ^ Hyndman, Jennifer; Giles, Wenona (June 28, 2004). Sites of Violence. University of California Press. pp. 124–125. ISBN 9780520237919.
Sources
edit- Oberling, Pierre (2000). "Mokri tribe". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition. New York.
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