The Saki (Persian: ساکی; Arabic: الساكي), also known as Sulaki, or Sakieh,Historical Gazetteer of Iran, Volume 3, 1976, pp. 639, . are an Arab and Lur tribe living mainly in southwestern Iran, mostly in Khuzestan and Lorestan. The Saki are one of the tribes of Bala Gariva. They mainly speak Arabic and Northern Luri and follow Shia Islam.

History The Saki tribe were one of the tribes of Bala Gariva.نامنامۀ ایلات و عشایر و طوایف: ایران تاریخی و فرهنگی، منوچهر ستوده، خورشید مومنی، 2006، pp. 271, .جلوه‌هاى جهانگردى عشایر، حسن زنده‌دل، 2000، pp. 82. They were mentioned by Moinuddin Natanzi among the Lur tribes.‏منتخب‌التواريخ معينی: تأليف ٨١٦ و ٨١٧ هجرى قمرى، معین‌الدین ‏نطنزى، ژان اوبن، 1957, pp. 53. Sekandar Amanollahi Baharvand wrote that they were possibly of non-Lur origin but had assimilated.قوم لر، سكندر امان‌اللهى بهاروند، 1992, pp. 138. Some claimed they were of Saka origin and that it was present in their name.آریاها و نا آریاها در چشم‌انداز کهن تاریخ ایران، رقیه بهزادی، ١٣٨٩، pp. 49-50، شابک ۹۷۸-۹۶۴-۶۴۱۴-۳۸-۱. The Saki tribe in the Shushtar region were plundered by Timur.The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, Beatrice Forbes Manz, 1999, pp. 101, .Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, Daniel T. Potts, 2014, pp. 209, . During the 1820s, there was a long and bloody conflict between the Saki and Sagvand tribes over land.قوم لر، سكندر امان‌اللهى بهاروند، 1992, pp. 11. The conflict resulted in the defeat of the Saki, many of which were absorbed by the Sagvand. By 1915, the Saki were under the leadership of Hossein Khan and were based in the Zal valley along with the Mir tribe who they had an alliance with.Tribal Pastoralists in Transition: The Baharvand of Luristan, Iran, Frank Hole, Sekandar Amanolahi-Baharvand, 2021, pp. 334, . There was also an Arabized section of the Saki with family ties to Ahwazi Arabs.تاريخ جغرافيائى عرب خوزستان، موسی سیادت، 1995، pp. 136. The Saki tribe in Luristan was said to have been massacred to extinction by the Dirakvand,Historical Gazetteer of Iran, Volume 3, 1976, pp. 233, . although the Saki continued to exist as an Arab tribe around Hoveyzeh, although some of the tribe still lived in Luristan where they were said to originate.

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