'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎209r] (422/706)

MABlWA—
A Persian fort in Azarbaljan, situated in the valley of the Little Zab
(Lahijan), 2 miles south of the road from Eayat (in Turkish territory) to
Khalisisar on the road to Sauj Bulagh.— {Gerard.)
MADAR-I-SHAH (No. 1)—
A caravansarai 32 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Tehran.— {Trotter.)
MADAR-I-SHAH (No. 2)—
A caravansarai partly in ruins on the Qaiz plateau, on the road from
Isfahan to Burujird, 65| miles from the former. There are 5 soldiers here
to guard the road to Durz.— {Schindler; Coningham.)
MIDI KARAB—
A village close to Nihavand; with the grave of Ahmad-ibn-Omar, the
grandson of MadI Karab, who fell at Nihavand, A. D. Ml,—{Schindler.)
MADRASSEH—
Madrasseh on the right bank of the Zindeh-Rud, 31| miles from Isfahan
on the road to Shush tar.— {Schindler.)
MADRKUK—
Thirty-seven miles from Isfahan on the road to Yazd. A small village
of 10 houses (40 people), belonging to the Shah, watered by canals from
the river ; there are a few trees round it and it is fairly prosperous.
There are five pairs of oxen for the plough. Twenty-five khdrwars -(16,2501bs.)
of barley and wheat are sown yearly. Taxes 32 tumdns. — {Preece, 1892.)
MAPI (MA’AFI)— {i.e., Exempt from taxes.)
Formerly a large and powerful tribe of Kurds. Now quite dispersed.
They are said to number about 200 families in the Kirmanshah province.
The Mafi, Jalllawand and Nanekall, when oppressed in Kazvin come to Kir
manshah, and when oppressed in Kirmanshah go to Kazvin. But as these
tribes are very poor many families during these peregrinations have settled
in villages belonging to other tribes and thus it is that they have dwindled
down to their present reduced number.
Mr. T. C. Plowden in 1881 speaks of some Mafi Kurds in Kaleh-Yavar,
some 23 miles from Kirmanshah on the road to Sinneh and “ I have heard*
of some 70 families of Mafi Kurds who reside near Zuhab, but the Mafi do
no longer, at least in the Kirmanshah province, exist as a tribe.” They
are Shi’ahs. J
Malcolm describes them as a section of theLakks.— (Rahino.)
A tribe of Kurds numbering 1000 families who spend part of the year
between Qishlaq and Kazvin. There are three branches: Ma’afi, Khiarav-
and and Fguli-Khan. The chiefs are G-uli Khan Sarhang, Hasan Khan
L Sarhang and Ism’all Khan Yavar.— {Rahino.)