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Arabs comprised the ruling military elite and as such, enjoyed special privileges. ... "Ancient Arabs", tribes that had vanished or been destroyed, ... The self-identified Arab Christians generally follow Eastern Churches such as the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches and the Maronite church. ... Syria, and the Palestinian territories. Jews from Arab countries – mainly Mizrahi Jews and Yemenite Jews – are today usually not categorised as Arab. ... Arab family of Ramallah,1905. Traditional Bedouin Genealogical: ... Map showing the Arab populations around the world Distribution of Arabic as sole official language (green) ... the language of the Arabs. The term ʾiʿrāb has the same root and refers to a particularly clear and correct mode of speech. ... Further information: Ancient Arabia, History of the Levant, Syria (Roman province), ... Inland, the nomadic Berbers allied with Arab Muslims in invading Spain. ... the term "Arab Jews" (Yehudim ‘Áravim, יהודים ערבים) ... [edit] Banu Kanz Nubia/Sudan, 11th-14th century A branch of the Rabi'ah tribe settled in north Sudan and slowly Arabized the Makurian kingdom in modern Sudan until 1315 AD when the Banu Kanz inherited the kingdom of Makuria and paved the way for the Arabization ... the Arabs spread Islam and the Arabic language (the language of the Qur'an) ... search For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). Arab العرب Philip the Arab • Harun al-Rashid • Al-Kindi • Al-Khansa Faisal I of Iraq • Gamal Abdel Nasser • May Ziade • Fairuz Total population approx. ... groups in the Arab LeagueHidden categories:"Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements since January 2007 Articles with unsourced statements since March 2008 Articles needing ... The earliest documented use of the word "Arab" as defining a group of people dates from the 9th century BCE.[14] Islamized but non-Arabized peoples, ... and therefore the majority of the world's Muslims, do not form part of the Arab World but comprise what is the geographically larger and diverse Muslim World. ... And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs, ... In the modern era, defining who is an Arab is done on the grounds of one or more of the following three criteria: ... But after the Islamic conquest of the 8th century, the language of the nomadic Arabs became regarded as the most pure by the grammarians following Abi Ishaq, ... The Arabs mainly settled the old Phoenician and Carthagenian towns, ... The relation of ʿarab and ʾaʿrāb is complicated further by the notion of "lost Arabs" al-ʿArab al-ba'ida mentioned in the Qur'an as punished for their disbelief. ... as in Egyptians, Spaniards and Yemenis. [21] The Christians of Italy and the Crusaders preferred the term Saracens for all the Arabs and Muslims of that time. ... and subdued Arabized the Sanhaja by the time of Ibn Khaldun. ... Based on this, in early Islamic terminology, ʿarabiy referred to the language, ... "Pure Arabs" of South Arabia, descending from Qahtan. The Qahtanites (Qahtanis) ... an originally north Arabic dialect spoken in the south, and influenced by Old South Arabian. ... Arab cuisine Varieties of Arabic History of the Arabs Diaspora Arab diaspora Middle East North Africa Philip the Arab Arab Christians Arab American Arab Brazilian Arab British Arab Mexican Arab Singaporean Arabs in Turkey Arab citizens of Israel Iranian ... [edit] Banu Hilal in North Africa, 1046AD The Banu Hilal was an Arabian tribal confederation, ... such as Egyptian Copts, may not identify as Arabs. The Arab League at its formation in 1946 defined Arab as "a person whose language is Arabic, ... and unlike the Ummayads, they had the support of non-Arab Islamic groups.[20] Through Islam and Arabic as the language of administration the Levantine and Iraqi populations were eventually Arabized. ... [edit] Early Islamic period Further information: Muslim conquests Dress of Arab women, ... The Nabataean Alphabet was adopted by Arabs to the south, and evolved into modern Arabic script around the 4th century. ... Basra, Kufa, Mosul and Samarra — all of which developed into major cities.[20] Caliph Abd al-Malik established Arabic as the Caliphate's official language in 686. ... of the manners, customs, and political and social systems of the culture." Most people who consider themselves Arab do so based on the overlap of the political and linguistic definitions. ... Some combine aspects of each definition, as done by Habib Hassan Touma,[17] who defines an Arab "in the modern sense of the word", ... The Lakhmids contested control of the Central Arabian tribes with the Kindites with the Lakhmids eventually destroying Kinda in 540 after the fall of their main ally Himyar. ... in the modern nationalist era, any person who is a citizen of a country where Arabic is either the national language or one of the official languages, ... and substantial Shi'a populations exist in Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, ... With the expansion of Islam, polytheistic Arabs were rapidly Islamized, ... Sayyid, Khoja or Siddiqui.[25] Iranian Arab communities are also found in Khorasan Province. ... culture and language. Arab nationalists believe that Arab identity encompasses more than outward physical characteristics, ... The "Arabized Arabs" (musta`ribah) of center and North Arabia, ... and/or a citizen of a country which may simply be a member of the Arab League (thereby having Arabic as an official government language, ... The earliest are written in variants of epigraphic south Arabian musnad script, ... [edit] Medieval times Further information: Islamic Golden Age Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima distinguishes between sedentary Muslims who used to be nomadic Arabs and the Bedouin nomadic Arabs of the desert. ... and the many Arabic personal names in Nabataean inscriptions. ... The Qur'an does not use the word ʿarab, only the nisba adjective ʿarabiy. ... the Arabs forged an Arab Empire (under the Rashidun and Umayyads, ... He used the term "formerly-nomadic" Arabs and refers to sedentary Muslims by the region or city they lived in, ... and ʾaʿrāb to the Arab Bedouins, carrying a negative connotation due to the Qur'anic verdict just cited. ... was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world. The term is rarely used today. ... History of Arabs in Afghanistan Most Arabs of Central Asia are fully assimilated with local populations, ... Few people consider themselves Arab based on the political definition without the linguistic one; thus few Kurds and Berbers identify as Arab. ... This definition covers fewer self-identified Arabs than not, ... cultural Arab vs. ethnic Arab. Some native people in Sudan, Morocco and Algeria (Berbers) ... remained heavily Arabized, until the expulsion of the Moriscos in the 17th century. ... It would exclude the entire Arab diaspora, but include not only those genealogically Arabs (Gulf Arabs and others, ... Kurds in Iraq, or the Somali majority of Arab League member Somalia). ... Proto-Arabic, or Ancient North Arabian, texts give a clearer picture of the Arabs' emergence. ... while the Berbers remained dominant inland. Inland north Africa remained partly Arabized until the 11th century, ... and Arabic language and culture were more widely disseminated as a result of early Islamic expansion.[13] Contents 1 Definition 2 Origins and history 2.1 Pre-Arabic Near East 3 Yemeni migrations to the North 3.1 Early Islamic period 3.1.1 Levant and Iraq ... The Qur'an became regarded as the prime example of the al-ʿarabiyya, ... In fact several different ethnonyms are found in Assyrian texts that are conventionally translated "Arab": ... fourth to sixth century. Dress of Arab men, fourth to sixth century. ... including the 8th century BCE Hasaean inscriptions of eastern Saudi Arabia, ... Ancient Near East and Ancient Arabia Early Semites, such as the Arameans, ... Arab nationalism has often competed for existence with regional nationalism in the Middle East, ... while others are the first attestations of Proto-Arabic dialects. ... We have made it an Arabic recitation in order that you may understand". ... The most prominent Arab Christian kingdoms were the Ghassanid and Lakhmid kingdoms. ... Lakhmids and Banu Judham began migrating into the Northern Arabian desert and the Levant.[10][11][12] The Arabic language gained greater prominence with the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD as the language of the Qur'an, ... but pre-classical Arabic. [edit] Yemeni migrations to the North This section does not cite any references or sources. ... Brill, 2008. Brill Online. 10 April 2008: "The name is an early one and can be traced in fragments of the old Arab poetry. ... such as Lebanese and Egyptian. [edit] Origins and history [edit] Pre-Arabic Near East Further information: ... someone who can trace his or her ancestry to the tribes of Arabia - the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula - and the Syrian Desert. ... "In the middle, were the Arabs who originated from different parts of the mainland (e.g., ... where Shalmaneser III lists a King Gindibu of mâtu arbâi (Arab land) ... and pre-dates the rise of Islam, with historically attested Arab Christian kingdoms and Arab Jews. ... such as Bedouins, where they may exist) and those Arabized-Arab-identified, ... ^ AskOxford: Arab ^ Arab. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: ... But some do, for instance some Berbers also consider themselves Arab (v. ... The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia. ... ISBN 2-88155-004-5. Hooker, Richard. "Pre-Islamic Arabic Culture." WSU Web Site. ... Arab From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, ... and possesses a fundamental knowledge of Arab tradition, that is, ... [22] The Christians of Iberia used the term Moor to describe all the Arabs and Muslims of that time.[23] [edit] Arabs of Central Asia Further information: ... is Arabic, including any of its varieties. This definition covers more than 250 million people. ... as "one who is a national of an Arab state, has command of the Arabic language, ... but would also include Arabized non-Arab-identified groups (including many Lebanese and many Egyptians, ... Their early inscriptions were in Aramaic, but gradually switched to Arabic, ... and from the early centuries AD was increasingly affected by Arab influence, ... they fought a thirty years war on the side of the Lamtuna Arabized Berbers who claimed Himyarite ancestry (from the early Islamic invasions) ... of the Sudan, that was completed by the arrival of the Jaalin and Juhayna Arab tribes. ... though they themselves consider they are of the pure stock of Himyar.” [1] ^ Princeton Wordnet definition of Arab. ... and the term kalam al-ʿArab, "language of the Arabs", denoted the uncontaminated language of the Bedouins. ... 1893 Medieval Arab genealogists divided Arabs into three groups: ... Etymology of the word Arab "Arab" is defined independently of religious identity, ... 350 to 422 million[1] Regions with significant populations Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent · Arabian Peninsula) ... translated as "Arab" or "Arabian". The scope of the term at that early stage is unclear, ... The Greeks called Yemen "Arabia Felix"[19]. The Romans called the vassal nomadic states within the Roman Empire "Arabia Petraea" after the city of Petra, ... Thus, over time, the term Arab came to carry a broader meaning than the original ethnic term: ... Most North and South American Arabs are Christian, as are about half of Arabs in Australia who come particularly from Lebanon, ... Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.[31]. Retrieved Feb.17, 2006 The Arabic language, ... 1972). Some religious minorities within the Middle East and North Africa who have Arabic or any of its varieties as their primary community language, ... race or religion. A related ideology, Pan-Arabism, calls for all Arab lands to be united as one state. ... Arabs (العرب al-ʿarab), refers to the ethnic group at large. ... The Arabic Language, Edinburgh University Press (1997)[30] The Catholic Encyclopedia, ... and since they had writing, it was they who made the first inscriptions in Arabic. ... The Qur'an calls itself ʿarabiy, "Arabic", and Mubin, "clear". ... and finally took Kairuan in 1057 Ad. The Banu Sulaym mainly settled and completely Arabized Libya. ... The first written attestation of the ethnonym "Arab" occurs in an Assyrian inscription of 853 BCE, ... in Central Arabia. They ruled much of the Northern/Central Arabian peninsula until the fall of the Himyarites in 525AD. ... but is now 3.8% due to mass emigration[citation needed]. In Israel Arab Christians constitute 2.1% (roughly 10% of the Palestinian Arab population). ... reveal a dialect which is no longer considered "proto-Arabic", ... Coin showing the Roman Emperor, Philip the Arab. Greeks and Romans referred to all the nomadic population of the desert in the Near East as Arabi. ... and in other regions became Arabized.[citation needed] Arab nationalism declares that Arabs are united in a shared history, ... They were proud of their Arab ancestry and sponsored the poetry and culture of pre-Islamic Arabia whilst diffusing with Levantine and Iraqi culture. ... Northern Africa Languages Arabic, Mehri[2][3] Religion Predominantly Islam; largest minority: ... the elites of the other prominent Arab kingdom, the Kindites, ... defeating the Sanhaja berbers and Arabizing Mauritania. [edit] Tribal genealogy Syrian Bedouin with family, ... but it seems to have referred to various desert-dwelling Semitic tribes in the Syrian Desert and Arabia. ... who lives in an Arabic speaking country, who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic speaking peoples". ... the 6th century BCE Lihyanite texts of southeastern Saudi Arabia and the Thamudic texts found throughout Arabia and the Sinai (not in reality connected with Thamud). ... through conversion and cultural assimilation. Many groups became known as "Arabs" through this process of Arabization rather than through descent. ... See Jewish exodus from Arab lands. [edit] See also General Arabia Umayyad Abbasid Lakhmids Tanukhids Arab Nationalism Arab world Arab Jews Arab Empire Arab League Arab Unification Anti-Arabism Pan-Arabism Pan-Arab colors Rashidun Women in Arab societies ... for example Jews An Arab (Arabic: عربي‎, ʿarabi) is a person who identifies as such on genealogical,[4][5] linguistic,[6][7] or cultural grounds.[8][9] The plural form, ... Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion with a number of deities, ... Uzbeks).[24] In order to notice their Arab origin they have a special term: ... Arabs Negev bedouins [edit] Sources Touma, Habib Hassan. The Music of the Arabs. ... and small coastal towns, and Arabizing the Sanhaja berber confederation. ... descending from Ishmael son of Abraham. The Book of Jubilees claims that the The sons of Ishmael intermingled with the 6 sons of Keturah from Abraham And was called Arabs and Ishmaelites: ... e.g. Gellner, Ernest and Micaud, Charles, Eds. Arabs and Berbers: ... overall Iraqi Jews "viewed themselves as Arabs of the Jewish faith, ... [edit] Levant and Iraq The arrival of Islam united the Arab tribes, ... Owen, Roger. "State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East 3rd Ed" Page 57 ISBN 0-415-29714-1 [edit] References and notes ^ Arabic Language - ninemsn Encarta ^ Kister, ... Fourth Edition. 2000 ^ Arab - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ Encyclopedia of the Orient ^ Francis Mading Deng, ... Origins Arabian mythology Adnani Arabs Qahtani Arabs Nabataeans Bedouin Semitic Ishmaelites Saracens Ancient Arabs Midianites Language and culture Arabic alphabet Arabic culture Arabic language Arabic literature Arabic music Arabic poetry Arab cinema ... However, the Arabs' higher status among non-Arab Muslim converts and the latter's obligation to pay heavy taxes caused resentment. ... The Abbasids were also Arabs (descendants of Muhammad's uncle Abbas) ... Though the Arabic language pre-dates the Common Era, Arabic culture was first spread in the Middle East beginning in the 2nd century as ethnically Arab Christians such as the Ghassanids, ... article Arabia https://www.cia.gov/.../geos/le.html#People History of Arabic language, ... Brookings Institution Press, p. 405, via Google Books [2] ^ Banu Judham migration ^ Ghassanids Arabic linguistic influence in Syria ^ The Ghassanids and Lakhmids ^ Islam and the Arabic language ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=pUepRuQO8ZkCArab Ethnic ... All contemporary Arabs were considered as descended from two ancestors, ... and are also Arab. Christians make up 9.2% of the population of the Near East.[26] In Lebanon they number about 39% of the population,[27] in Syria 10%.[28] In Palestine before the creation of Israel estimates ranged as high as 20%, ... Footnote 10: "Their neighbours in the West scarcely regarded them as Arabs, ... Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western. Geneva: INU Press. ... Christian martyr Saint Abo, the patron saint of Tbilisi. Arab Muslims are Sunni, ... both Christians and Muslims) and even non-Arabized ethnic minorities which have remained non-Arabic-speaking (such as the Berbers in Morocco, ... and Arabia Petraea In Sassanid times, Arabia Petraea was a border province between the Roman and Persian empires[citation needed], ... Arabi, Arubu, Aribi and Urbi. The Hebrew Bible occasionally refers to `Arvi peoples (or variants thereof), ... This reform greatly influenced the conquered non-Arab peoples and fueled the Arabization of the region. ... 3.1.2 North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula 3.2 Medieval times 3.2.1 Arabs of Central Asia 3.2.2 Banu Hilal in North Africa, ... and called unconquered deserts bordering the empire to the south and east Arabia Magna. ... Arab From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, ... search For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). Arab العرب Philip the Arab • Harun al-Rashid • Al-Kindi • Al-Khansa Faisal I of Iraq • Gamal Abdel Nasser • May Ziade • Fairuz Total population approx. ... 350 to 422 million[1] Regions with significant populations Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent · Arabian Peninsula) ... Northern Africa Languages Arabic, Mehri[2][3] Religion Predominantly Islam; largest minority: ... Christianity; other religions Related ethnic groups Other Semitic peoples, ... for example Jews An Arab (Arabic: عربي‎, ʿarabi) is a person who identifies as such on genealogical,[4][5] linguistic,[6][7] or cultural grounds.[8][9] The plural form, ... Arabs (العرب al-ʿarab), refers to the ethnic group at large. ... Though the Arabic language pre-dates the Common Era, Arabic culture was first spread in the Middle East beginning in the 2nd century as ethnically Arab Christians such as the Ghassanids, ... Lakhmids and Banu Judham began migrating into the Northern Arabian desert and the Levant.[10][11][12] The Arabic language gained greater prominence with the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD as the language of the Qur'an, ... and Arabic language and culture were more widely disseminated as a result of early Islamic expansion.[13] Contents 1 Definition 2 Origins and history 2.1 Pre-Arabic Near East 3 Yemeni migrations to the North 3.1 Early Islamic period 3.1.1 Levant and Iraq ... 3.1.2 North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula 3.2 Medieval times 3.2.1 Arabs of Central Asia 3.2.2 Banu Hilal in North Africa, ... 1046AD 3.2.3 Banu Sulaym in North Africa, 1049AD 3.2.4 Banu Kanz Nubia/Sudan, ... 11th-14th century 3.2.5 Banu Hassan Mauritania 1644-1674AD 3.2.6 Tribal genealogy 4 Religions 5 See also 6 Sources 7 References and notes [edit] Definition Further information: ... Etymology of the word Arab "Arab" is defined independently of religious identity, ... and pre-dates the rise of Islam, with historically attested Arab Christian kingdoms and Arab Jews. ... The earliest documented use of the word "Arab" as defining a group of people dates from the 9th century BCE.[14] Islamized but non-Arabized peoples, ... and therefore the majority of the world's Muslims, do not form part of the Arab World but comprise what is the geographically larger and diverse Muslim World. ... In the modern era, defining who is an Arab is done on the grounds of one or more of the following three criteria: ... Arab family of Ramallah,1905. Traditional Bedouin Genealogical: ... someone who can trace his or her ancestry to the tribes of Arabia - the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula - and the Syrian Desert. ... This definition covers fewer self-identified Arabs than not, ... and was the definition used in medieval times, for example by Ibn Khaldun. ... Linguistic: someone whose first language, and by extension cultural expression, ... is Arabic, including any of its varieties. This definition covers more than 250 million people. ... Certain groups that fulfill this criterion reject this definition on the basis of genealogy, ... such an example may be seen in the identity of many Egyptians.[15][16] Political: ... in the modern nationalist era, any person who is a citizen of a country where Arabic is either the national language or one of the official languages, ... and/or a citizen of a country which may simply be a member of the Arab League (thereby having Arabic as an official government language, ... even if not used by the majority of the population). This definition would cover over 300 million people. ... It may be the most contested definition as it is the most simplistic one. ... It would exclude the entire Arab diaspora, but include not only those genealogically Arabs (Gulf Arabs and others, ... such as Bedouins, where they may exist) and those Arabized-Arab-identified, ... but would also include Arabized non-Arab-identified groups (including many Lebanese and many Egyptians, ... both Christians and Muslims) and even non-Arabized ethnic minorities which have remained non-Arabic-speaking (such as the Berbers in Morocco, ... Kurds in Iraq, or the Somali majority of Arab League member Somalia). ... Map showing the Arab populations around the world Distribution of Arabic as sole official language (green) ... and one of several official languages (blue) The relative importance of these three factors is estimated differently by different groups and frequently disputed. ... Some combine aspects of each definition, as done by Habib Hassan Touma,[17] who defines an Arab "in the modern sense of the word", ... as "one who is a national of an Arab state, has command of the Arabic language, ... and possesses a fundamental knowledge of Arab tradition, that is, ... of the manners, customs, and political and social systems of the culture." Most people who consider themselves Arab do so based on the overlap of the political and linguistic definitions. ... Few people consider themselves Arab based on the political definition without the linguistic one; thus few Kurds and Berbers identify as Arab. ... But some do, for instance some Berbers also consider themselves Arab (v. ... e.g. Gellner, Ernest and Micaud, Charles, Eds. Arabs and Berbers: ... from tribe to nation in North Africa. Lexington: Lexington Books, ... 1972). Some religious minorities within the Middle East and North Africa who have Arabic or any of its varieties as their primary community language, ... such as Egyptian Copts, may not identify as Arabs. The Arab League at its formation in 1946 defined Arab as "a person whose language is Arabic, ... who lives in an Arabic speaking country, who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic speaking peoples". ... The relation of ʿarab and ʾaʿrāb is complicated further by the notion of "lost Arabs" al-ʿArab al-ba'ida mentioned in the Qur'an as punished for their disbelief. ... All contemporary Arabs were considered as descended from two ancestors, ... Qahtan and Adnan. Versteegh (1997) is uncertain whether to ascribe this distinction to the memory of a real difference of origin of the two groups, ... but it is certain that the difference was strongly felt in early Islamic times. ... Even in Islamic Spain there was enmity between the Qays of the northern and the Kalb of the southern group. ... The so-called Himyarite language described by Al-Hamdani (died 946) ... appears to be a special case of language contact between the two groups, ... an originally north Arabic dialect spoken in the south, and influenced by Old South Arabian. ... During the Muslim conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, ... the Arabs forged an Arab Empire (under the Rashidun and Umayyads, ... and later the Abbasids) whose borders touched southern France in the west, ... China in the east, Asia Minor in the north, and the Sudan in the south. ... This was one of the largest land empires in history. In much of this area, ... the Arabs spread Islam and the Arabic language (the language of the Qur'an) ... through conversion and cultural assimilation. Many groups became known as "Arabs" through this process of Arabization rather than through descent. ... Thus, over time, the term Arab came to carry a broader meaning than the original ethnic term: ... cultural Arab vs. ethnic Arab. Some native people in Sudan, Morocco and Algeria (Berbers) ... and in other regions became Arabized.[citation needed] Arab nationalism declares that Arabs are united in a shared history, ... culture and language. Arab nationalists believe that Arab identity encompasses more than outward physical characteristics, ... race or religion. A related ideology, Pan-Arabism, calls for all Arab lands to be united as one state. ... Arab nationalism has often competed for existence with regional nationalism in the Middle East, ... such as Lebanese and Egyptian. [edit] Origins and history [edit] Pre-Arabic Near East Further information: ... Ancient Near East and Ancient Arabia Early Semites, such as the Arameans, ... Akkadians and Canaanites, built civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Levant; genetically, ... they often interlapped and mixed[18]. Slowly, however, they lost their political domination of the Near East due to internal turmoil and attacks by non-Semitic peoples. ... Although the Semites eventually lost political control of the Middle East to the Persian Empire, ... the Aramaic language remained the lingua Franca of Mesopotamia and the Levant. ... Aramaic itself was replaced by Greek as the Middle East's prestige language following the conquest of Alexander the Great. ... The first written attestation of the ethnonym "Arab" occurs in an Assyrian inscription of 853 BCE, ... where Shalmaneser III lists a King Gindibu of mâtu arbâi (Arab land) ... as among the people he defeated at the Battle of Karkar. Some of the names given in these texts are Aramaic, ... while others are the first attestations of Proto-Arabic dialects. ... In fact several different ethnonyms are found in Assyrian texts that are conventionally translated "Arab": ... Arabi, Arubu, Aribi and Urbi. The Hebrew Bible occasionally refers to `Arvi peoples (or variants thereof), ... translated as "Arab" or "Arabian". The scope of the term at that early stage is unclear, ... but it seems to have referred to various desert-dwelling Semitic tribes in the Syrian Desert and Arabia. ... Proto-Arabic, or Ancient North Arabian, texts give a clearer picture of the Arabs' emergence. ... The earliest are written in variants of epigraphic south Arabian musnad script, ... including the 8th century BCE Hasaean inscriptions of eastern Saudi Arabia, ... the 6th century BCE Lihyanite texts of southeastern Saudi Arabia and the Thamudic texts found throughout Arabia and the Sinai (not in reality connected with Thamud). ... The Nabataeans were nomadic newcomers[citation needed] who moved into territory vacated by the Edomites -- Semites who settled the region centuries before them. ... Their early inscriptions were in Aramaic, but gradually switched to Arabic, ... and since they had writing, it was they who made the first inscriptions in Arabic. ... The Nabataean Alphabet was adopted by Arabs to the south, and evolved into modern Arabic script around the 4th century. ... This is attested by Safaitic inscriptions (beginning in the 1st century BCE) ... and the many Arabic personal names in Nabataean inscriptions. ... From about the 2nd century BCE, a few inscriptions from Qaryat al-Faw (near Sulayyil) ... reveal a dialect which is no longer considered "proto-Arabic", ... but pre-classical Arabic. [edit] Yemeni migrations to the North This section does not cite any references or sources. ... Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. ... Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (February 2008) ... Further information: Ancient Arabia, History of the Levant, Syria (Roman province), ... and Arabia Petraea In Sassanid times, Arabia Petraea was a border province between the Roman and Persian empires[citation needed], ... and from the early centuries AD was increasingly affected by Arab influence, ... notably with the Ghassanids migrating north from the 3rd century. ... The Ghassanids,Lakhmids and Kindites were the last major migration of non-Muslims out of Yemen to the north. ... The Ghassanids revived the Semitic presence in the then Hellenized Syria. ... They mainly settled the Hauran region and spread to modern Lebanon, ... Palestine and Jordan. The Ghassanids held Syria until engulfed by the expansion of Islam. ... Coin showing the Roman Emperor, Philip the Arab. Greeks and Romans referred to all the nomadic population of the desert in the Near East as Arabi. ... The Greeks called Yemen "Arabia Felix"[19]. The Romans called the vassal nomadic states within the Roman Empire "Arabia Petraea" after the city of Petra, ... and called unconquered deserts bordering the empire to the south and east Arabia Magna. ... The Lakhmids settled the mid Tigris region around their capital Al-hira they ended up allying with the Sassanid against the Ghassanids and the Byzantine Empire. ... The Lakhmids contested control of the Central Arabian tribes with the Kindites with the Lakhmids eventually destroying Kinda in 540 after the fall of their main ally Himyar. ... The Sassanids dissolved the Lakhmid kingdom in 602. The Kindites migrated from Yemen along with the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, ... but were turned back in Bahrain by the Abdul Qais Rabi'a tribe. ... They returned to Yemen and allied themselves with the Himyarites who installed them as a vassal kingdom that ruled Central Arbia from Qaryah dhat Kahl (the present-day Qaryat al-Faw) ... in Central Arabia. They ruled much of the Northern/Central Arabian peninsula until the fall of the Himyarites in 525AD. ... [edit] Early Islamic period Further information: Muslim conquests Dress of Arab women, ... fourth to sixth century. Dress of Arab men, fourth to sixth century. ... Muslims of Medina referred to the nomadic tribes of the deserts as the A'raab, ... and considered themselves sedentary, but were aware of their close racial bonds. ... The term "A'raab' mirrors the term Assyrians used to describe the closely related nomads they defeated in Syria. ... The Qur'an does not use the word ʿarab, only the nisba adjective ʿarabiy. ... The Qur'an calls itself ʿarabiy, "Arabic", and Mubin, "clear". ... The two qualities are connected for example in ayat 43.2-3, "By the clear Book: ... We have made it an Arabic recitation in order that you may understand". ... The Qur'an became regarded as the prime example of the al-ʿarabiyya, ... the language of the Arabs. The term ʾiʿrāb has the same root and refers to a particularly clear and correct mode of speech. ... The plural noun ʾaʿrāb refers to the Bedouin tribes of the desert who resisted Muhammad, ... for example in ayat 9.97, alʾaʿrābu ʾašaddu kufrān wa nifāqān "the Bedouin are the worst in disbelief and hypocrisy". ... Based on this, in early Islamic terminology, ʿarabiy referred to the language, ... and ʾaʿrāb to the Arab Bedouins, carrying a negative connotation due to the Qur'anic verdict just cited. ... But after the Islamic conquest of the 8th century, the language of the nomadic Arabs became regarded as the most pure by the grammarians following Abi Ishaq, ... and the term kalam al-ʿArab, "language of the Arabs", denoted the uncontaminated language of the Bedouins. ... [edit] Levant and Iraq The arrival of Islam united the Arab tribes, ... who flooded into the Semitic Levant and Iraq. In 661, and throughout the Caliphate's rule by the Ummayad dynasty, ... Damascus was established as the Muslim capital. In these newly acquired territories, ... Arabs comprised the ruling military elite and as such, enjoyed special privileges. ... They were proud of their Arab ancestry and sponsored the poetry and culture of pre-Islamic Arabia whilst diffusing with Levantine and Iraqi culture. ... They established garrison towns, including Ramla, ar-Raqqah, ... Basra, Kufa, Mosul and Samarra — all of which developed into major cities.[20] Caliph Abd al-Malik established Arabic as the Caliphate's official language in 686. ... This reform greatly influenced the conquered non-Arab peoples and fueled the Arabization of the region. ... However, the Arabs' higher status among non-Arab Muslim converts and the latter's obligation to pay heavy taxes caused resentment. ... Caliph Umar II strove to resolve the conflict when he came to power in 717. ... He rectified the situation, demanding that all Muslims be treated as equals but, ... his intended reforms did not take effect as he died after only three years of rule. ... By now, discontent swept the region and a bloody uprising occurred in which the Abbasids came to power and moved the capital to Baghdad. ... The Abbasids were also Arabs (descendants of Muhammad's uncle Abbas) ... and unlike the Ummayads, they had the support of non-Arab Islamic groups.[20] Through Islam and Arabic as the language of administration the Levantine and Iraqi populations were eventually Arabized. ... [edit] North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula The Phoenicians and later the Carthaginians dominated North African and Iberian shores for more than 8 centuries until they were suppressed by the Romans and the later Vandal invasion. ... Inland, the nomadic Berbers allied with Arab Muslims in invading Spain. ... The Arabs mainly settled the old Phoenician and Carthagenian towns, ... while the Berbers remained dominant inland. Inland north Africa remained partly Arabized until the 11th century, ... whereas the Iberian Peninsula, particularly its southern part, ... remained heavily Arabized, until the expulsion of the Moriscos in the 17th century. ... [edit] Medieval times Further information: Islamic Golden Age Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima distinguishes between sedentary Muslims who used to be nomadic Arabs and the Bedouin nomadic Arabs of the desert. ... He used the term "formerly-nomadic" Arabs and refers to sedentary Muslims by the region or city they lived in, ... as in Egyptians, Spaniards and Yemenis. [21] The Christians of Italy and the Crusaders preferred the term Saracens for all the Arabs and Muslims of that time. ... [22] The Christians of Iberia used the term Moor to describe all the Arabs and Muslims of that time.[23] [edit] Arabs of Central Asia Further information: ... History of Arabs in Afghanistan Most Arabs of Central Asia are fully assimilated with local populations, ... and call themselves the same as locals (e.g. Kazakhs, Tajiks, ... Uzbeks).[24] In order to notice their Arab origin they have a special term: ... Sayyid, Khoja or Siddiqui.[25] Iranian Arab communities are also found in Khorasan Province. ... [edit] Banu Hilal in North Africa, 1046AD The Banu Hilal was an Arabian tribal confederation, ... organized by the Fatimids. They struck in Libya, reducing the Zenata Berbers (a clan that claimed Yemeni ancestry from pre-Islamic periods) ... and small coastal towns, and Arabizing the Sanhaja berber confederation. ... The Banu Hilal eventually Settled modern (Morocco and Algeria) ... and subdued Arabized the Sanhaja by the time of Ibn Khaldun. ... [edit] Banu Sulaym in North Africa, 1049AD The Banu Sulyam is another Bedouin tribal confederation from Nejd which followed through the trials of Banu Hilal and helped them defeat the Zirids in the Battle of Gabis in 1052 AD, ... and finally took Kairuan in 1057 Ad. The Banu Sulaym mainly settled and completely Arabized Libya. ... [edit] Banu Kanz Nubia/Sudan, 11th-14th century A branch of the Rabi'ah tribe settled in north Sudan and slowly Arabized the Makurian kingdom in modern Sudan until 1315 AD when the Banu Kanz inherited the kingdom of Makuria and paved the way for the Arabization ... of the Sudan, that was completed by the arrival of the Jaalin and Juhayna Arab tribes. ... [edit] Banu Hassan Mauritania 1644-1674AD The Banu Maqil is a Yemeni nomadic tribe that settled in Tunisia in the 13th century. ... The Banu Hassan a Maqil branch moved into the Sanhaja region in whats today the Western Sahara and Mauritania, ... they fought a thirty years war on the side of the Lamtuna Arabized Berbers who claimed Himyarite ancestry (from the early Islamic invasions) ... defeating the Sanhaja berbers and Arabizing Mauritania. [edit] Tribal genealogy Syrian Bedouin with family, ... 1893 Medieval Arab genealogists divided Arabs into three groups: ... "Ancient Arabs", tribes that had vanished or been destroyed, ... such as 'Ad and Thamud, often mentioned in the Qur'an as examples of God's power to destroy wicked peoples. ... "Pure Arabs" of South Arabia, descending from Qahtan. The Qahtanites (Qahtanis) ... are said to have migrated the land of Yemen following the destruction of the Ma'rib Dam (sadd Ma'rib). ... The "Arabized Arabs" (musta`ribah) of center and North Arabia, ... descending from Ishmael son of Abraham. The Book of Jubilees claims that the The sons of Ishmael intermingled with the 6 sons of Keturah from Abraham And was called Arabs and Ishmaelites: ... Book of Jubilees 20:13 And Ishmael and his sons, and the sons of Keturah and their sons, ... went together and dwelt from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in all the land which is towards the East facing the desert. ... And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs, ... and Ishmaelites. [edit] Religions This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. ... Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (April 2008) ... Christian martyr Saint Abo, the patron saint of Tbilisi. Arab Muslims are Sunni, ... Shia. The Druze faith is generally considered divergent enough to constitute a separate religion. ... The self-identified Arab Christians generally follow Eastern Churches such as the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches and the Maronite church. ... Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion with a number of deities, ... including Hubal, Wadd, Allāt, Manat, and Uzza. Some tribes had converted to Christianity or Judaism. ... A few individuals, the hanifs, had apparently rejected polytheism in favor of monotheism unaffiliated with any particular religion. ... The most prominent Arab Christian kingdoms were the Ghassanid and Lakhmid kingdoms. ... When Himyarite kings converted to Judaism in the late 4th century, ... the elites of the other prominent Arab kingdom, the Kindites, ... being Himyirite vassals, apparently also converted (at least partly). ... With the expansion of Islam, polytheistic Arabs were rapidly Islamized, ... and polytheistic traditions disappeared. Today, Sunni Islam dominates in most areas, ... overwhelmingly so in North Africa. Shia Islam is dominant in southern Iraq and southern Lebanon. ... Shia Muslims are also believed to be in the majority in Bahrain, ... and substantial Shi'a populations exist in Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, ... northern Syria, the al-Batinah region in Oman, and in northern Yemen. ... The Druze community, concentrated in the Levant, follow a faith that was originally an offshoot of Ismaili Shia Islam, ... and are also Arab. Christians make up 9.2% of the population of the Near East.[26] In Lebanon they number about 39% of the population,[27] in Syria 10%.[28] In Palestine before the creation of Israel estimates ranged as high as 20%, ... but is now 3.8% due to mass emigration[citation needed]. In Israel Arab Christians constitute 2.1% (roughly 10% of the Palestinian Arab population). ... In Egypt they are about 15% of the population and in Jordan they around 7%. ... Most North and South American Arabs are Christian, as are about half of Arabs in Australia who come particularly from Lebanon, ... Syria, and the Palestinian territories. Jews from Arab countries – mainly Mizrahi Jews and Yemenite Jews – are today usually not categorised as Arab. ... Sociologist Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and 1940s, ... overall Iraqi Jews "viewed themselves as Arabs of the Jewish faith, ... rather than as a separate race or nationality".[29] Prior to the emergence of the term Mizrahi, ... the term "Arab Jews" (Yehudim ‘Áravim, יהודים ערבים) ... was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world. The term is rarely used today. ... The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia. ... From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, ... most of these Jews left or were expelled from their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel. ... Some immigrated to France, where they form the largest Jewish community, ... outnumbering European Jews, but relatively few to the United States. ... See Jewish exodus from Arab lands. [edit] See also General Arabia Umayyad Abbasid Lakhmids Tanukhids Arab Nationalism Arab world Arab Jews Arab Empire Arab League Arab Unification Anti-Arabism Pan-Arabism Pan-Arab colors Rashidun Women in Arab societies ... Origins Arabian mythology Adnani Arabs Qahtani Arabs Nabataeans Bedouin Semitic Ishmaelites Saracens Ancient Arabs Midianites Language and culture Arabic alphabet Arabic culture Arabic language Arabic literature Arabic music Arabic poetry Arab cinema ... Arab cuisine Varieties of Arabic History of the Arabs Diaspora Arab diaspora Middle East North Africa Philip the Arab Arab Christians Arab American Arab Brazilian Arab British Arab Mexican Arab Singaporean Arabs in Turkey Arab citizens of Israel Iranian ... Arabs Negev bedouins [edit] Sources Touma, Habib Hassan. 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"In the middle, were the Arabs who originated from different parts of the mainland (e.g., ... prominent Mahrî tribes10, and individuals from Hadramawt, and Aden)". ... Footnote 10: "Their neighbours in the West scarcely regarded them as Arabs, ... though they themselves consider they are of the pure stock of Himyar.” [1] ^ Princeton Wordnet definition of Arab. ... ^ AskOxford: Arab ^ Arab. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: ... Fourth Edition. 2000 ^ Arab - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ Encyclopedia of the Orient ^ Francis Mading Deng, ... War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan , Published 1995, ... 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