Badzhui people

The Badzhui are a sup-group of the Shugnan, although sometimes considered to be a distinct ethnographic group. They are primarily Ismaili Muslims, much like the Shugnan. [1] The Badzhui are also known under the generic term Pamir people.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1984), 19.
  2. ↑ Olson, James Stuart. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 273-274.
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