qafila

5There were approximately fifty quality horses among the four hundred carried by Muhin Shah and the dozen or so other traders, who were mostly Peshin Sayyids, in their qafila or caravan when it left Herat. 10 Conolly's inquiry about how profits could be made on this generally pathetic lot of animals elicited two responses.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008