نسخة مذيلة من "بلاد فارس والشأن الفارسي" بقلم جورج كرزون، مع أوراق مدرجة [ظ‎‎٦‎٧‎٢] (١٨١٤/١٣٦١)

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with the Mamasenni Lurs. I append a list of their tribal divisions
as they have been recorded at different times in the past half-
century by Sir H. Layard, Sir J. Sheil, and Mr. W. Baring (of the
Teheran Legation). They consider tliemselves distinct from the
Bakhtiaris, having, with few exceptions, been under separate
chiefs and another government (namely, Behbehan, which is an
administrative sub-division of Ears). Nevertheless they differ from
the Bakhtiaris but little in dialect, and not at all in manners,
customs, or religion. They had always enjoyed the worst of
reputations for lawlessness and cruelty until they were severely
taken in hand by Ferhad Mirza, who was Governor of Ears
up till 1882, and who by his merciless visitation soon purged
them of the dross of turbulence. The tribe has never raised its
head since. De Bode, in whose and Bayard’s time they were ruled
by a seyid of Arab origin, Mirza Koma or Kumo of Behbehan, says
that their common food was bread made from pounded acorns. 1
Adjoining the Kuhgelus on the East are the tents of the
Mamasenni (qy. Mohammed Huseini) Lurs, 2 occupying the country
Mamasenni known as Shulistan, 3 and extending as far east and
Lurs south-east as Ears and the plain of Kazerun. This
tribe prides itself on its origin, claiming to have come from
Seistan, and to be directly descended from Rustam, whose name is
still borne by one of the Mamasenni clans. Their subdivisions
have been almost identically reported by different travellers in this
century, and are as follows:—Rustam, Bekshi (or Bakesh), Javi,
Dushman Ziari (the last-named, as has been seen, also included
among the Kuhgelu Lurs, an indication of the slightness of
1 The Arabic word for this acorn, which grows on a dwarf-oak and is of ab
normal length, is -belut, whence the title of the tree, quercus ballota, and whence
also bellota, the Spanish word for acorn. Both names are possibly derived from
the Greek pdAavos, and so originally from the Aryan root gar, gal (cf. the Latin
qlans). The flour derived from the crushed acorns they either eat raw in the form
of paste, or baked into cakes. Compare the paAavricpdyol of Arcadia in Herod, i. 66 .
2 The popular etymologists, who like nothing so much as a fanciful resemblance,
have connected them with the Mamakeni of Quintus Curtius (lib. vii. cap. vi),
who valiantly resisted Alexander in Bactria, near Maracanda (Samarkand). Others
identify them with the Mammisei of Pliny {Hist. Nat. v. 19), who inhabited the
tetrarchy of Mammisea in Coele-Syria.
* 3 This is the Shuolstan of Marco Polo, i.e. the country of the Shuls, who, in the
twelfth century, were expelled by the Lurs from Luristan, and settled in the
country between Khuzistan and Shiraz. Ibn Batutah, on his first day’s march
from Shiraz to Kazerun, encamped in the country of the Shuls, whom he described
as ‘ a Persian desert tribe which includes some pious persons.’