JUDAKI, a small Lor tribe of the Ḵorramābād region in western
Persia. It forms part of the Bālā Gariva group of tribes, which
inhabits the mountainous region between the Kaškān and Dez
rivers, and which also includes the Bayrānavand (q.v.),
Dirakvand (q.v.), Pāpi, and Sagvand tribes. According to the
British colonial administrator, Arnold Talbot Wilson
(1884-1940), around 1910 the Judakis’ grazing lands were located
between the Kaškān river and the main Dezful-Ḵorramābād caravan
route, and they occupied the villages of Čulhul, which was their
headquarters, and Jāydar, around which were their only
cultivated lands, as well as the villages of Bādamak, Čamešk,
and Riḵān in what is today the rural district (dehestān) of Bālā
Gariva (p. 29). Their number was estimated at 500 families in
the 1870s by Albert Houtum-Schindler (q.v.; p. 86), at some 800
families in the early 1900s by Hyacinth Louis Rabino (1877-1950
p. 33), and at some 600 families in the early 1930s by Masʿud
Kayhān (p. 66). The linguist Oskar Mann (