Taymani (Aimaq tribe)

The Taymani (Dari/Pashto: تایمنی) are tribe of Aimaq people in Ghor Province, Afghanistan. They speak the Aimaq dialect of Persian language, but some southern groups of Taymanis have adopted Pashto language and Pashtun culture[1] and usually deny they are Aimaq and feel affinity with Pashtun people, although their Pashtun neighbors identify them as Aimaq.[2]

Descent and origin

The Taymani claim descent from Kakar Pashtuns, forming a coalition in Ghor around 1650.[3]

References
  1. Vogelsang, Willem (2002). The Afghans. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 18. ISBN 0-631-19841-5. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  2. William Maley. Fundamentalism reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1998. ISBN 1-85065-360-7, ISBN 978-1-85065-360-8
  3. Janata, A. "AYMĀQ". In Ehsan Yarshater (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). United States: Columbia University. A Kakar Pashtun from Baluchistan, Tayman, formed a coalition in Ghor around 1650.


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