Mhallami
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3,500,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Turkey
|
1,600,000 |
 Lebanon
|
500,000 |
 European Union
|
900,000 |
 Germany
|
250,000 |
| Languages | |
|
North Mesopotamian Arabic Western Aramaic, Kurdish & Turkish |
|
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Semitic peoples Syrian |
|
The Mhallami also Mhalmites, (Arabic: محلّمي, Mḥallame; Syriac: ܡܚܠܡܝ̈ܐ, Mḥallmāye/Mḥallmoye; Turkish: Mıhellemi) is an Arab tribe, most of whom are living in and around the city of Mardin, Turkey. Outside of the region, they are also known as Mardinli.
Originating from the Arab tribe of Banu Bakr, their homeland was Najd in central Arabia, but they were settled by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I to that region. They are now primarily speakers of North Mesopotamian Arabic (qiltu variant) and Sunni Muslims of Shafi`i madh'hab.
After the Umayyad expansion into north Mesopotamia, many families from the Arabian Peninsula were settled to the region of Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, wrote Yaqubi, who lived around that time, in his book Kitab Futuh Al-buldan about the resettlement to the region of Mardin.
Lebanon had a population of 70,000 to 100,000 Mhallami prior to Lebanese Civil War. Their origin and legal status became a particular concern when they started to seek asylum in Western European countries en masse in the early 1980s.
Most Mhallamis in Turkey live in Mardin, and at the village of Yerköy.
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