Title: The Gūrān
Author: Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky
Place of publication: London
Publisher: University of London
Release date: 1943
The vague and indiscriminate use of the term Kurd goes back to early times According to Hamza Isfahānī (circa 350/961), ed. Berlin, 151, The Persians used to call Daylamites 'the Kurds of Tabaristān' as they used to call Arabs 'the Kurds of Sūristān', i.e. of 'Iraq. Other Arab and Persian authors of the tenth century A.D. mean by Kurds any Iranian nomads of Western Persia, such as the tent-dwellers of Fārs. [1]