Inallu Ghezelbashs and Ghameh zani in the city of Chadegan

Abstract

AbstractThe Inallus are among the Turk tribes that played a special role in the government of the Mamalik of Syria and after joining the Safavi, as Shamloo Ghezelbashs, one of them became the governor of the Chadegan region and then his descendants until the Pahlavi period as the governor and the political elite, the local military had many economic and cultural activities such as the creation of mourning ceremonies in the first decade of Muharram. In this regard, the important issue that the present article addresses is "What role did the Inallus play in launching and continuing the Ghameh zani ceremony in the Chadegan?" which in this article are studied in the current and the period of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, that is compared and analyzed with the information presented in the travelogues of Safavi period tourists to investigate the history of the Ghameh zani. The findings of the research indicate that the Ghameh zani of the Chadegan in the contemporary period is very similar to the Safavi period, and the more we go back to the previous periods, the more prominent the role of the Inallus in holding the ceremony. Therefore, the continuation of the four hundred year rule of the Inallus in the Chadegan, caused the continuation of the Ghameh zani in the Chadegan and the centrality of the Inallus in holding ceremonies from the Safavi period, opening a hole to the dark background of the Ghameh zani, in the records and origins of the Ghezelbashs, before entering Iran.

Keywords

• inallu
• safavi
• pahlavi
• ghameh zani
• chadegan