L M Province - Feylis, Battle of Mehran, Ilam Airport, Medical University of Ilam, Ali Sherwan, Abdanan County, Kabir Kuh, Darrehshahr County (Paperback)

Chapters: Feylis, Battle of Mehran, Ilam Airport, Medical University of Ilam, Ali Sherwan, Abdanan County, Kabir Kuh, Darrehshahr County, Ilam County, Dehloran County, Mehrjankadak, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fayli, "Feili," or Feyli' (Kurdish: /Feyli/Pehli) are largely a Shi'a community living in Baghdad and the Diyala Province of Iraq around Khanaqin and Mandali, and then across the Iranian borders, into the provinces of Ilam, Kirmanshah and Luristan. They are an estimated 30,000 Faylis living in Iraq and Iran. Feyli speak Gorani, a dialect of the Kurdish language. The roots of the Feyli go back to the Aryan immigrants of the first millennium BC, and more specifically, the Parthian/Pahlawi/Pahlawanid settlements of the 2nd century BD. They embraced Islam in the early stages of the Islamic conquest and colonisation of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Iran, although archaeological evidence from the Ilam Province in Iran indicates that some proportions of Fayli might have been Nestorian Christians until the 18th Century. The conversion to Shia form of Islam seem to have begun under the Safavid dynasty (1507-1721) of Persia/Iran, Faylis today are primarily Imami Shias like the Persians, Lurs and the Azeris, as well as the majority of the Iraqi Arabs. In modern times the Feylis have been subject to state persecutions. They are considered as a stateless people, with both Iran and Iraq claiming they are citizens of the other country. In the mid 1970s, Iraq expelled around 40,000 Shia Feyli's who had lived for generations near Baghdad and Khanaqin, alleging that they were Iranian nationals. The origins and linguistic history of the Feyli have been investigated by several notable western scholars, such as Sir John Malcolm, Brown, Laurie, Hassle an...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3573491