Ormur Explained
The Ormur (ps|اورمړ), also called Burki or Baraki (ps|برکي), are an Eastern Iranic people and Pashtun tribe[1] [2] mainly living in Baraki Barak, in the Logar province of Afghanistan and in Kaniguram, in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan.[3]
Background
The Pashtun warrior-poet Pir Roshan, born in 1525 in Jalandhar, India, belonged to the Ormur tribe. He moved with his family to their ancestral homeland of Kaniguram in Waziristan, from where he led the Roshani movement against the Mughal Empire.
Language and demographics
Ormuri[4] is the first language of the Ormurs living in Kaniguram and its vicinity in South Waziristan; today, all are bilingual in the local Pashto dialect of Waziristani (Maseedwola).
They are also found in Baraki Barak in Logar and in the outskirts of Ghazni in Afghanistan. However, Pashto and Dari have replaced Ormuri language there.
Notable people
Further reading
- Sufi Illuminati: The Rawshani Movement in Muslim Mysticism, Society and Politics by Sergei Andreyev Publisher: Routledge
- The Rawshaniyya: Sufi movement in the Mughal tribal periphery, in Late Classical Sufism. (Curzon Persian Art & Culture) (Hardcover) Sergei Andreyev
- Book: Khan, Imran . 2011 . Pakistan: A Personal History . 978-0-593-06774-1 . Bantam ress.
- Warrior Race – Imran Khan – Butler & Tanner Ltd
- Olaf Caroe, The Pathans
- Roshaniya movement and the Khan Rebellion – Author: Yury V. Bosin
- Punjab Notes and Queries Volume II, Page 160 (History of Bayezid) Desiples of Sheikh Bazid – Pathans of Mastwi – Tirah (FYI)
- Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall – Geschichte der Assassinen
- Dabistan of Mohsani Fani (Translated by Leyden, 11th Volume of the Asiatic Researches (Pages 406, 407, 420 (Ala Dad))
- Memoirs of the Saints, translated by Dr. Bankley Behari
- Rawshaniyya movement ... Reprinted from Abr-Nahrain, by Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi (Author) ASIN: B0017UJT6S
- The beginning of Pashtun written culture and the Rawshaniyyah movement, in Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, to be published in 1999
- Religious factor in the traditional Pashtun warfare, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Weaponry and Warfare in Historical and Social Perspective, Hermitage Press, St Petersburg, 1998, pp. 55–59
- Uwaysi Aspects in the Rawshani Doctrine, in Central Asia and the Eastern Hindukush. Countries and Peoples of the East journal, vol. XXXII, St Petersburg, 1998, pp. 137–148
- The Rawshaniyya; Millenarian Sufi Movement in the Mughal Tribal Periphery, in Persianate Sufism in the Safavid and Mughal Period. An International Conference on Late Classical Sufism, London 19–21 May 1997, Abstracts, pp. 7–8
- British Indian Views of the Later Followers of the Rawshaniyya, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Iran, vol. XXII, London, 1994, pp. 135–138
- Turmoil on the Roof of the World, in Central Asia and the Caucuses in World Affairs, Hastings, 1993, pp. 1–5
- Notes on the Ormur People, in St Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. IV, St Petersburg, 1993, pp. 230–238
- On a Little-Known Rawshani Source, in: Man, Culture, Philosophy, The Urals University Press, Yekaterinburg, 1992, pp. 335–349 (In Russian)
- Two Rawshani Sources on Five Pillars of Islam, in: St Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. I, St Petersburg, 1992, pp. 380–384 (in Russian)
Notes and References
- Web site: Khattak . Sohail . 6 December 2011 . Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy . . Rozi Khan Burki is one of the few people who have carried out detailed research on the language. In his book written purely in Ormuri, he claims that the similarities between Pashtun and Ormuri people persist because Ormur was the grandson of Qasi Abdur Rasheed – the forefather of all Pashtun tribes. “They are originally Pashtuns who migrated in 1025 to Kaniguram from Logar, Afghanistan. Their language was initially known as ‘Burgista’ but now it has become Ormuri,” he said..
- Web site: Yousafzai . Arshad . 1 July 2018 . Bringing Ormuri back from the dead . . The area belongs to the Burki tribe of Pashtuns but their mother tongue is not Pashto -- they speak Ormuri (...) "Burki is purely a Pashtun tribe. We are Pashtuns. No one has the right to question our identity," stated the language preservationist, adding, that it is not essential for all Pashtun tribes to speak only Pashto..
- Web site: Isolate language from the mountains of Waziristan faces extinction . 25 March 2014 .
- Web site: Burki . Rozi . Dying Languages; Special Focus on Ormuri . 12 July 2001. https://archive.today/20120903184433/http://www.khyber.org/publications/016-020/ormuri.shtml. usurped. 3 September 2012.
