Back شعب إيماق Arabic Etnia aimaq AST Аймакъал AV Aymaqlar Azerbaijani آیماقلار AZB Txahar Aymak Catalan Aimaken German Αϊμάκ Greek Aimakoj Esperanto Aimak Spanish
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,000,000 (2024) 4% of the population of Afghanistan[a][2][3][4] | |
| Languages | |
| Aimaq dialect of Persian[5] | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Sunni Islam[6] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hazaras[5] |
The Aimaq (Persian: ایماق, romanized: Aimāq) or Chahar Aimaq (چهار ایماق), also transliterated as Aymaq, Aimagh, Aimak, and Aymak are a collection of Sunni and mostly Persian-speaking[7] nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes.[8] They live mainly in the central and western highlands of Afghanistan, especially in Ghor and Badghis. Aimaqs were originally known as chahar ("four") Aymaqs: Jamshidi, Aimaq Hazara, Firozkohi, and Taymani.[9] The Timuri, which is a separate tribe but is sometimes included among Aimaqs, which is known as Aimaq-e digar ("other Aimaq")These people were once a part of hazara ethnic group but due to religious conflict they are separated.in 1880 emir Abdur Rehman Khan left more than 100k in dry desert of ghor to let them die out of thirst.people of Aimaq still beliefs they are hazara and many of them are exchanging daughters for marriage.[10]
The Aimaq speak several subdialects of the Aimaq dialect of the hazargi language, but some southern groups of Taymani, Firozkohi, and northeastern Timuri Aimaqs have adopted the Farsi language.[11]
- ^ "Population Matters". 3 March 2016.
- ^ World Population Review (19 September 2021). ""Afghanistan Population 2024"".
- ^ "Distribution of Afghan population by ethnic group 2020". statista.com. 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Hazara Ethnic Groups: A Brief Investigation". reliefweb.int. 14 August 2011.
- ^ a b Janata, A. "AYMĀQ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). United States: Columbia University.
- ^ "Aimaq". Minority Rights Group. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ "AYMĀQ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Tom Lansford -A bitter harvest: US foreign policy and Afghanistan 2003 Page 25 "The term Aimaq means "tribe" but the Aimaq people actually include several different ethnic groups. The classification has come to be used for a variety of nonaligned nomadic tribes"
- ^ Spuler, B. (2012-04-24), "Aymak", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Brill, retrieved 2023-07-14
- ^ Vogelsang, Willem (2002). The Afghans. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 37–. ISBN 9780631198413. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
- ^ Vogelsang, Willem (2002). The Afghans. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 18. ISBN 0631198415. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
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