The Chegini tribe (Kurdish: چەگینی ,Çengînî, Persian: چگنی) is a mostly sedentary[1] Kurdish[2] tribe which lives in Lorestan Province and scattered around Qazvin Province and Fars Province in Iran. The tribe also lives in Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk in Iraq.[3][4] While the tribe migrated to Lorestan from Northwestern Iran, not much info exist on its origins.[5]

A 2003 CIA Factbook map which includes the Chegini north of Sulaymaniyah

Early scrutiny

Charles MacGregor classified the tribe as Kurdish in his topographical and ethnographical oeuvre from 1872.[6]

According to the Encyclopædia Iranica[3] there exists some non-Kurdish tribes in iran that have the same name, such as the clan of the Amala tribe by the name of Čegīnī in the Qašqāʾī tribal confederacy and the Jabbāra Arabs of Fārs by the name of Awlād-e Čegīnī.

History

During the reign of Tahmasp I, the Chegini Kurds settled in Khorasan as they were on their way to India. In Khorasan, they prospered under the protection of the shah. In 1597, Sharafkhan Bidlisi wrote that the tribe lived by brigandage and intercepting the roads. Moreover, unlike other Kurdish tribes, they had no emir or mirza which could lead the tribe.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ehsan Yarshater (1992). Encyclopaedia Iranica. University of California. p. 110.
  2. ^ Bagher Ali Adelfar, Fatemeh Malehmir Chegini (2016). "An investigation into the role of Chegini tribe in the first period of Safavid era (1523 AD-1578 AD/930 HQ-986 HQ)". Ponte Academic Journal. 72 (12). doi:10.21506/j.ponte.2016.12.18.
  3. ^ a b "ČEGĪNĪ". Iranicaonline. Archived from the original on 17 November 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  4. ^ Archibald Roosevelt (1944). "Kurdish tribal map of Iraq : showing the Iraq portion of Kurdistan and the major Kurdish tribal divisions within Iraq". Yale University.
  5. ^ Oberling, Pierre (1990). "Čegīnī". Iranica Online. Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. ^ Charles MacGregor (1872). Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia. Calcutta: Foreign Department Press. p. 591.
  7. ^ François-Bernard Charmoy (1873). Chèrefnameh: ou, Fastes de la nation kourde (in French). Oxford University - Commissionnaires de l'Académie impériale dessciences. pp. 189–191.

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