Rankali

The Rankali house is that of Jamal al-Din Balan, chief of the Rankaliyya Kurds in the mountains of Hamadan. The Mamluk scholar Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari, writing in the 1340s, called the tribe the band of Jamal al-Din Balan and said that he ruled the country of Kangavar and the districts around it, on the road from Hamadan to Kermanshah.