Pur Chaman District

Pur Chaman
پُرچمن
District
Pur Chaman

Location within Afghanistan [1]

Coordinates: 33°08′24″N 63°51′36″E / 33.14000°N 63.86000°E / 33.14000; 63.86000
Country  Afghanistan
Province Farah Province
Population (2010)[2]
  Total 52,000

Pur Chaman (also transliterated as Purchaman or Porchaman) is a mountainous district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population is approximately 95% Tajik with a Pashtun minority. The main village, also called Purchaman 33°8′29″N 63°51′41″E / 33.14139°N 63.86139°E / 33.14139; 63.86139 is situated at 1431 m altitude.

Religious role

Pur Chaman was the center of operations for the Naqshbandi Sufi leader (pir) of the Aimaq ethnic group until the late 1970s, when the last pir, Baha'uddin Jan, was killed under the Taraki government.[3]

Sources

References

  1. "District Names". National Democratic Institute. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  2. "Farah Provincial Profile" (PDF). Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  3. Olivier Roy. Islam and resistance in Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-521-39700-6, ISBN 978-0-521-39700-1
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