"دليل بلاد فارس، الجزء III، وهو يتضمن محافظة فارس، لورستان، عربستان، خوزستان، يزد، كرمانشاه، أردلان، كردستان" [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٩] (٦٨٦/٤٨٢)

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LUR—LUR
The members of the tribe of Dilfau are chiefly ^Ali-Ilahis in
religion.
The tribe of 'Amalah, as the name denotes, were originally em
ployed by the Walls of Luristan as their immediate servants.
Several of its subdivisions are still called after the services that
their members used to perform, as mirakhur, katlrji (head muleteer),
ghulam (slave). This name is still applied to that portion of the
tribes of the Pusht-i-Kuh which encamps with the Wall.
The '’Amalah are Dili Nishlns, who cultivate the crown lands in the
neighbourhood of Khuramabad.
The tribes of the Pusht-i-Kuh are under a Wall whose ancestors were
the chiefs of all the Feili Lurs. Hasan Khan, the father of the Wall,
when Layard visited these tribes, was the last who possessed that
powerful post. He was, however, vested with authority over the tribes
of the Pish-Kuh by the Persian government, his legitimate right only
extending to those of the Pusht-i-Kuh. Kalb 'AH Khan, who was of the
same family, opposed him with some success, but was finally murdered
when in the camp of Muhammad'All Mirza, who had by an oath of safe
conduct prevailed on the chief to join him. Hasan Khan died at a very
advanced age. His three sons had ejected him from the government of
Luristan, and after his death they divided the tribes subject to him.
The eldest, 'AH Khan, enjoyed the chief authority in Luristan, the
following tribes acknowledging him as their chief :—Kurd, Shahan,
Dlnarv Lurt, Hademeni, (?) Sagwaud, and Bairanwand; the two
latter tribes, however, only when he had power to enforce his authority.
Ahmad Khan holds half the tribe of MehakI, and Haidar Khan the
remainder, with the tribe of Panj Situn.
'AH Khan, in addition to the tribes above mentioned, possessed the
villa 0*68 of Dih Luran and Bayat, and extensive pastures in the plains,
which are usually inhabited by the Banl-Lam Arabs, who pay a small
sum yearly for permission to occupy them.
Of all the tribes the Sagwands give the most trouble to the Persian
government. Relying upon the strength of their position, they are
often for some months in open rebellion. Before the arrival ot the
Mutamad in Khuzistan, in the spring of 1841, the whole country
was in a most disturbed state and the roads very unsafe : caravans were
frequently plundered, and the communication between Shustar, and
Karmanshah, and Khuramabad, by the mountain passes, almost en
tirely cut off. The country is at present in a more quiet state, and
hostages have been given by the chiefs as securities for their future
good conduct.
Lur-i-Kuchak was formerly included in the government of Karman
shah but since the removal of the Mutamad-i-Daulatto Isfahan, it has
been’made over to him. The usual residence of the governor of Pish-
Kuh is either at Khuramabad or in the plain of Saimarah.
It is very difficult to form a correct estimate of the forces that might
be raised in Lur-i-Kuchak. The Wall may probably be able to collect
between 4,000 and 5,000 men, of whom 500 or 600 are horsemen
The Sagwands have about 300 horsemen. The gross amount of armed