. "Kurdish tanbur (Kurdish: temb\u00FBr \u062A\u0647\u200C\u0645\u0628\u0648\u0648\u0631\u200E) or tanbour (Persian: \u062A\u0646\u0628\u0648\u0631\u200E\u200E), a fretted string instrument, is an initial and main form of the tanb\u016Br instrument family, original of and unique to the Kurdish people.It is highly associated with the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq) religion in Kurdish areas and in the Lorest\u0101n provinces of Iran. It is currently one of the only musical instrument used in Ahl-e Haqq rituals, and practitioners venerate the temb\u00FBr as a sacred object."@en . . . .