Aimaq Hazara

Aimaq Hazara
ایماق هزاره

Languages
Aimaq dialect
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Hazaras, Aimaqs, Moghols

The Aimaq Hazara (Hazara-ye Qala-ye Naw); (Dari: ایماق هزاره, romanized: Aimāq Həzārə) are the Hazara component of the Aimaq confederation. They are mostly Sunni Muslims while other Hazaras are mostly Shia Muslims. Some Aimaq Hazaras are semi-nomadic and live in yurts covered with felt.

See also

• Aimaq people
• List of Hazara tribes

Further reading

• Brian Glyn Williams (2012), Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780812244038, JSTOR j.ctt3fj5vt
• Richard Tapper; Keith McLachlan (2003), Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia (History and Society in the Islamic World), ISBN 9780714649276
• David J. Phillips (2001), Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World, William Carey Library, ISBN 9781903689059
• Spuler, B. (2012-04-24), "Aymak", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Brill

External links

• Ethnologue.com
• Nativeplanet.org
• Central Asian Cultural Intelligence for Military Operations Aimaq of Afghanistan