Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Writing tribal history
- PART I The Safavid state and the origins of the Shahsevan
- PART II The rise of the Shahsevan confederacy
- 5 Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli
- 6 Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil
- 7 The Shahsevan tribal confederacy
- PART III The Shahsevan tribes in the Great Game
- PART IV The end of the tribal confederacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index of topics
- Index of places, peoples, persons, dynasties, parties, companies
- Index of authors quoted or discussed
- Index of tribal names
- Plate section
7 - The Shahsevan tribal confederacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Writing tribal history
- PART I The Safavid state and the origins of the Shahsevan
- PART II The rise of the Shahsevan confederacy
- 5 Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli
- 6 Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil
- 7 The Shahsevan tribal confederacy
- PART III The Shahsevan tribes in the Great Game
- PART IV The end of the tribal confederacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index of topics
- Index of places, peoples, persons, dynasties, parties, companies
- Index of authors quoted or discussed
- Index of tribal names
- Plate section
Summary
Organization of the early Shahsevan
In the foregoing chapters, we have sought and examined evidence for the first appearance in their present habitat of the ancestors of the Shahsevan tribes of Moghan, and the first formation there of a recognizable tribal confederacy. The prey has been elusive, and the narrative has been at times dry, dense and complex. The materials have inevitably been of a dynastic and political nature, to do with administration, campaigns and rebellions. With the establishment of the confederacy in the region, finally, in the second half of the eighteenth century, we may attempt, in the absence as yet of any definite information, to imagine the social and economic circumstances of the Shahsevan peoples at the time. First we should summarize the political history we have traced.
Among the tribal names of groups and individuals reported in the Moghan-Ardabil region by the first quarter of the eighteenth century were the following:
• Tekelu/Takleh, Dulqadir/Delaqarda, Afshar, Shamlu (including Inallu, Ajirli, Beydili) are reported in or near Moghan. All these are names of former Qizilbash Turkoman confederacies, with known or suspected descendants among nineteenth-century Shahsevan. The original confederacies were all large and complex, with sections in many parts of Iran by this time. The sections in Moghan may have arrived with Esmaʿil Safavi as early as 1500, but they may not have come until long after 1600.
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- Frontier Nomads of IranA Political and Social History of the Shahsevan, pp. 129 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997