Sanjâbi (tribe)

The Sanjâbi or Senjâwi (Kurdish: سنجاوی ,Sincawî‎, Persian: ایل سنجابی‎), is one of the biggest Kurdish tribes in Kermanshah Province of Iran and also in east of Iraq). The Sanjabi dialect is a branch of southern Kurdish language family.

For the village in Iran, see Sanjabi, Iran. For the Iranian administrative subdivision, see Sanjabi Rural District.
Sanjabi men clothing

See also
  • Karim Sanjabi - chief of Sanjabi tribe in the last decades of 20th century and was a liberal political leader in Iran

References
  • Karim Sanjabi, Hopes and Despairs: The Political Memoirs , London, 1989 (in Persian)
  • علی اکبر خان، سردار مقتدر سنجابی. ایل سنجابی و مجاهدت‌های ملی ایران. تحریر و تحشیه دکتر کریم سنجابی. تهران: نشر شیرازه، 1380 ISBN 964-6578-91-8
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