Arabian culture
| عَرَب (‘arab) | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| c. 450 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Arab League 423 million | |
| Significant Arab diaspora (including partial ancestry) |
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| Brazil | 12,000,000 |
| France | 4,000,000 |
| Indonesia | 5,000,000 |
| Turkey | 5,000,000 (Including recent Syrian refugees) |
| United States | 3,500,000 |
| Argentina | 1,300,000–3,500,000 |
| Israel (Native) | 1,700,000 |
| Venezuela | 1,600,000 |
| Colombia | 1,500,000 |
| Iran | 1,500,000 |
| Chad | 1,493,410 |
| Mexico | 1,100,000 |
| Germany | 1,000,000+ |
| Chile | 700,000 |
| Italy | 680,000 |
| United Kingdom | 366,769 |
| Canada | 380,620 (2011 Census) |
| Netherlands | 180,000 |
| Australia | 350,000 |
| Honduras | 150,000–200,000 |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Islam (Sunni; also Shia, Sufi, Ibadi); Minority: Christianity,religious humanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Jews, Other Afroasiatic-speaking peoples | |
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a Arab ethnicity should not be confused with non-Arabic-speaking ethnicities that are also native to the Arab world. b Not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are Arabs. An Arab can follow any religion or irreligion. |
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Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب ; [ˈʕarab]) are a population inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean islands.
The Arabs are first mentioned in the mid-ninth century BC as tribal people in eastern and southern Syria, and the northern Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs appear to have been under the vassalage of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BC), and the succeeding Neo-Babylonian (626–539 BC), Achaemenid (539–332 BC), Seleucid and Parthian empires.Arab tribes, most notably the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, begin to appear in the southern Syrian Desert from the mid 3rd century CE onward, during the mid to later stages of the Roman and Sasanian empires. Tradition holds that Arabs descend from Ishmael, the son of Abraham. The Arabian Desert is the birthplace of "Arab". There are other Arab groups as well that spread in the land and existed for millennia.
Before the expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), "Arab" referred to any of the largely nomadic Semitic people from the northern to the central Arabian Peninsula and Syrian Desert. Today, "Arab" refers to a large number of people whose native regions form the Arab world due to the spread of Arabs and the Arabic language throughout the region during the early Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries and the subsequent Arabisation of indigenous populations. The Arabs forged the Rashidun (632–661), Umayyad (661–750) and the Abbasid (750–1258) caliphates, whose borders reached southern France in the west, China in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Sudan in the south. This was one of the largest land empires in history. In the early 20th century, the First World War signalled the end of the Ottoman Empire; which had ruled much of the Arab world since conquering the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517. This resulted in the defeat and dissolution of the empire and the partition of its territories, forming the modern Arab states. Following the adoption of the in 1944, the Arab League was founded on 22 March 1945. The Charter of the Arab League endorsed the principle of an Arab homeland whilst respecting the individual sovereignty of its member states.
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