A Syriac work from the early 7th century (?) describes the life of a Christian convert from the Parthian house of Mihran. The distribution of members of the Mihran family around the Shahrazur region is an intriguing feature in the text. Gushnazdad was born in what is now the province of Krmashan. As was to be expected, the father had to travel far from home. What the following geographers in the Arabic literature came to call 'the Mountains' complemented the late Sassanid spread of the house. The earliest Arabic sources that explicitly linked the house of Mihran and the Kurd label were probably more in-depth than the conventional narrative that assumed they were discussing nomads.
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