Mohammad Khanlu (Moḥammad-Ḵānlū[1]) (محمد خانلو) is one of the six major Tribes of Arasbaran. It is a Turkicized Kurdish[2] tribe dwelling for the most part in the Arasbaran region, in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Its summer quarters were around Marzrud and its winter quarters were around Heydarkanlu village of Khoda Afarin County. According to A. Lampton, in Arasbaran the pasturage belonged to Khans, who also owned arable land in winter quarters.[3]
At present the tribe is in most part sedentary, with majority of families living in suburbs of Tehran. Some descendants of the ruling Klan spend their summer in Chaparli pastures, and others in the recently erected villas in Garmanab.
- ^ "ČALABĪĀNLŪ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org.
- ^ Oberling, Pierre (1964-12-31). "The Tribes of Qaraca Dag: A Brief History". Oriens. 17: 60–95. doi:10.2307/1580019. ISSN 0078-6527. JSTOR 1580019.
- ^ A. S. K. Lambton, "Landlord and Peasant in Persia: A Study of Land Tenure and Land Revenue..", 1991, p.285