Mokri tribe

The Mokri tribe is a Kurdish tribe residing in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Mokri princes made up the elite-ruling class of the emirate of Mukriyan, while the Dehbruki tribe made up the majority of the rural petty-ruling class.[1]

History

The Mokri are notable for having produced many distinguished figures, such as Aziz Khan Mokri, who served as commander-in-chief of the army from 1853 to 1857.[2]

Abbas I of Persia married a Mokri noblewoman and daughter of the Mokri governor of Maragheh in 1610 CE after defeating the Mokri in the Siege of Dimdim and executing her brother and his men; despite her relatively young age while in Mukriyan, she was known to be popular among the Mokri.[3][4]

Mokri women traditionally mixed with men and did not veil, it was also standard for Mokris to greet guests with cheek kisses even between opposite genders. However, despite their free association with men, women had to, historically, abide to the Mokri patriarchal code to "retain their honor” such as not engaging in adultery,[5][6] which includes subtle romance such as courtship and romantic relationships with the absence of fornication which was otherwise tolerated by the surrounding semi-nomadic Kurdish Bolbas tribes like the Mangur, who’s tribeswomen enjoyed greater freedoms compared to urban women of the Mokri.[7]

See also

References
  1. Hassanpour, Amir (1989). "BŪKĀN". Encyclopedia Iranica. IV.
  2. Oberling 2000.
  3. Butler, Herbert (2012). Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart: Travels in Africa, Persia, and Asia the Great : Some Years Travels Into Africa and Asia the Great, Especially Describing the Famous Empires of Persia and Hindustan, as Also Divers Other Kingdoms in the Oriental Indies, 1627-30, the 1677 Version. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). p. 403. ISBN 978-0-86698-475-1.
  4. American Society of Genealogists. 1997. p. 244.
  5. Hassanpour, Amir (September 1, 2001). WOMEN OF A NON-STATE NATION (Kurdish Studies Series, Volume 3 ed.). University of Toronto: Mazda. pp. The (Re)production of Patriarchy in the Kurdish Language. ISBN 1-56859-093-8.
  6. Rosskeen Gibb, Hamilton Alexander (1954). The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Volume 4 ed.). Brill. pp. 188–192.
  7. Hyndman, Jennifer; Giles, Wenona (June 28, 2004). Sites of Violence. University of California Press. pp. 124–125. ISBN 9780520237919.

Sources
  • Oberling, Pierre (2000). "Mokri tribe". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition. New York.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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