Iran Bakhtiyari Tribe Study

The Middle East early as one of the cradles of human civilization, the tribal traditions are ingrained. As Iran has inherited the ancient Persian civilization, tribal traditions in history and influence throughout the period until Reza Khan settled later completely devoid of. As the scale of the Bakhtiari tribe in southwest Iran has hundreds of years of nomadic civilization, the unity of the Ilhan family after the tribe 1894 is deeply involved in the politics of Iran starting point.As the origin of the constitutional revolution of the modernization of Iran,It has a profound impact on the modernization of Iran. The Bakhtiari tribe as constitutional supporters once seize supreme power in Iran in Tehran in 1909, but because of their comprehensive qualities and lack of the powers of the threat and withdraw from the political arena in the complex political struggle after the failure. However, with the contradictions within the tribe continues to ferment, resulting in inter tribal rule fall apart, cohesion and lax.In 1921, Reza Khan boarded the stage of history, Bakhtiari has served as a useful weapon in rebel tribal government crackdown of other tribes in the southwest, but tribal rebellion caused by "centralized sand incident" and tribal internal conflicts after the outbreak let Reza Khan lose faith in them, the tribe in 1933 to settle. After the tribe elite is still active in Iran's political arena.