Khanileh, Kermanshah

Chanileh (Kurdish: Xaníle, خانیله ) is a small village 6 km southwest of Ravansar and about 56 kilometers from Kermanshah in western Iran. It lies on the southern slopes of the hilly area of Salakan and offers an impressive view of the Gomeshter ( Garaw ) plane. Salakan is part of the radiolarian belt and has numerous sources outlets on the northern and southern slopes. The presence of these sources and impressive view of Khanileh over the plane pulled prehistoric people to the area since the Bronze Age and early settlements continue in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The remains of these early settlements are visible on an old grave hills west of the village and at an old cemetery from the Iron Age period in the village itself TL of a number of shards of the Western Hills has revealed two groups of data: the 4th and the 1st millennium BC. It is a low hill, the remains south of the village called Tapa Bawa with Parthian occupation. These sites were studied in 1986 and 2006, which led to the discovery of artifacts on a number of shards and stone age. Presence of shards from the Islamic period indicates that the village was inhabited during this period.

Chanileh was the center of a group of Qaderiya, a Kurdish Sufi order whose leader Sheikh Hadi Hashemi, there were settled and early 1970s, between the end of 1950. His father, Sheikh Mohammad Hashemi ( Zada nakhwar ) was from Dolaw village, one of the traditional centers of Qaderiyas Sufi orders southeast of Sanandaj. He came to Khanileh with a group of his deputies or caliphs and dervishes or initiated. The agricultural land around the village gradually became the private property of the Shaikh family. His son, who was a landlord, built a large brick house, which was mainly a manor house and in the same time a Khanagha or town house for his caliphs and dervishes. The farmers who no Khanileh landowners were shepherds and workers of the Shaikh. His persistent pressure on poor indigenous peasants since the 1960s land reform, and finally the Islamic Revolution of 1979 forced him to Iraq and finally weakened migrate to Great Britain. He died in London, but his body was taken and buried in Dolaw back to Iran. The village was abandoned in early 1970, but after the revolution, the new government helped farmers to cultivate the land and returned a number of families who migrated to Khanileh Rawansar and had settled there.