Kurani

The Kurani were the leading family of the Guran, also called Goran, a Kurdish tribe of the Kermanshah country whose main seats were Dartang and Darneh. Vladimir Minorsky suggested their ancestors came from the Caspian provinces and migrated to the Zagros under the Sasanians.

Medieval Muslim sources knew them as the Juraqan; in 1014 the Guran killed their former ally Badr ibn Hasanwayh. Around 1343 the geographer al-Umari described them as soldiers and peasants at Rawst, led by an amir named Muhammad, and at Dartang.

In 1596 Sharaf Khan Bidlisi counted the Guran among the four main branches of the Kurds, noting that most lived under Kalhur and Ardalan rule. After the Ottoman sultan Murad IV gave Zohab to the Bajilan, the Guran recovered the leadership only in the early nineteenth century under the chiefs of Qaleh Zanjir.