The Gūrān

The Gūrān

V. Minorsky

University of London

The vague and indiscriminate use of the term Kurd goes back to early times According to Hamza Isfahānī (circa 350/961), ed. Berlin, 151, "The Persians used to call Daylamites 'the Kurds of Tabaristān' as they used to call Arabs 'the Kurds of Sūristān', i.e. of 'Iraq." Other Arab and Persian authors of the tenth century A.D. mean by Kurds any Iranian nomads of Western Persia, such as the tent-dwellers of Fārs.

The famous historian of the Kurdish nation Sharaf ...