"كردستان والأكراد" [ظ‎‎٢‎٣] (١٢٢/٤٦)

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Tribe.
Number of
families
Remarks.
3. Mahalemi
800
Probably mixed Arabs and Kurds;
originally Christian, according to
tradition: mostly Moslems now, but
women unveiled; speaking debased
Arabic.
4. Haruna
750
Sedentary Kurds ; about 90 families are
Jacobite Christians.
5. Del Mamikan ...
(?)
Sedentary Kurds; speaking debased
Arabic.
6. Domana
180
Christians and Moslems.
7. Dorkan
120
Yezidi and Moslems.
8. Mom an
600
Moslems, speaking Kermanji ; about
90 families and 3 tribal chiefs are
Christian.
9. Haverka
1,800
Half Christian, half Moslem, speaking
Kermanji.
10. Salahan
(?)
(?)
11. Girgiri
500
Tent-dwelling agriculturalists, speaking
Kermanji, but said to be of Arab
origin.
12. Dasikan
900
Yezidi, Moslems and Christians, speak
ing Kermanji.
13. Alian
1,200
Yezidi, Moslems and Christians, speak
ing Kermanji.
14. Mizidagh
(?)
(?)
Of these only four tribes occur in our list also, namely the Saur
(Sa'our), and the Mahalemi (Muhallamiyeh); the Haverka and the Alian
are clearly identical with the Haverki and Alian in section 7, while the
Girgiri are perhaps connected with the Gargariyah in this account.
About these tribes Sir Mark Sykes says that it is very difficult to
state with any precision whether they can be classed as Kurds or not;
presumably they represent scattered fragments of the old Aramaean
population, mized with the imperial colonists of Roman times, Kurds,
Persians, Turks and Mongols. Some are entirely Moslem, others Jacobite
Christian, others devil-worshippers, and others again comprise adherents
of all three religions. Taken as a whole, they are an industrious and capable
people, good stone-masons and admirable vine-growers, but withal fierce,
bloodthirsty, vindictive, revengeful and treacherous.