Timuri: Difference between revisions

| group = Timuri Aimaq

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| population = 350,000{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

| region1 = {{AFG}}

| pop1 = 145,000{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

| region2 = {{IRN}}

| pop2 = 196,000{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

| langs = [[Aimaq dialect]] of [[Dari Persian]], and [[Pashto]]

| rels = [[Sunni Islam]] in Afghanistan<br>[[Shia Islam]] in Iran

| related = [[Hazaras]] and [[Iranian peoples]]

The '''Timuri''', or '''Taimuri''' ({{lang-fa|تیموری}}), are a sub-tribe of the [[Aimaq people]] of [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iran]], one of the four major Aimaq tribes, which also include the [[Firozkohi]], [[Taymani]], and [[Jamshidi (tribe)|Jamshidi]].<ref name="Rais2008">{{cite book|author=Rasul Bux Rais|title=Recovering the frontier stage: war, ethnicity, and state in Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C99WKI8EJrsC&pg=PA33|accessdate=31 March 2011|year=2008|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-0956-4|pages=33–}}</ref> The Timuri originated in western [[Badghis Province]]. They mostly speak the [[Aimaq dialect]] of [[Persian language|Persian]], but some members of the tribe in [[Baghlan Province]] have adopted [[Pashto]].<ref name="ir1"/>

The Timuri were once the largest and most powerful of the Aimaqs. They are descendants of [[Timurid dynasty|Timur]] and the [[Mughal Empire]]. Nowadays, they live in Afghanistan and [[Iran]]. In Iran, they live in the former [[Khorasan Province]] and around [[Mashhad]]. In Afghanistan, their traditional nomadic homeland is Badghis Province, while others are settled in oases near [[Herat]] and [[Shindand]] in western Afghanistan and near [[Ghazni]] in central Afghanistan. There is also a small group of [[Pashtunised]] pastoralist Timuri in Baghlan Province in northeastern Afghanistan.<ref name="ir1">{{cite encyclopedia|title=AYMĀQ|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]|quote=The Timuri, once the most powerful of the “lesser” Aymaq, had their original homeland in western Badghis. Besides those still living there or in Khorasan, there are settled Timuri south of Herat and near Shindand, as well as to the north of Ghazni in Shiite Hazara country. A group of Pashtunized nomadic Timuri has its winter quarters near Baghlan in northeastern Afghanistan. Some of the best qualities of “Herat Baluch” carpets are woven by Timuri in Badghis, classified by the name of the respective ṭaefa such as Kawdanī, Šērḵānī, Yaʿqūbḵānī, or Zakanī.|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|location=United States|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/aymaq-turk|last=Janata|first=A.|editor=Ehsan Yarshater|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|edition=Online}}</ref>