Arab people

Arabs
Arabic: عَرَب (ʿarab)
Total population
c. 451 million to 421+ million
Regions with significant populations
 Arab League   353,513,000.:
 Brazil11,600,000–19,500,000.:
 France5,500,000–7,000,000.:
 United States5,650,000.:
 Turkey5,000,000.:
 Argentina3,500,000.:
 Colombia3,200,000.:
 Chad1,650,000.:
 Israel2,131,000.:
 Iran1,650,000–2,000,000.:
 Germany1,451,950.:
 Venezuela1,450,000.:
 Spain1,350,000.:
 Mexico1,150,000.:
 Chile800,000
 Canada750,925(2010).:
 Denmark121,000.:
 Italy705,968.:
 Sweden543,350
 Great Britain500,000.:
 Australia500,000.:
 Netherlands480,000–613,800.:
 Eritrea80,000(2010).:
 Honduras280,000.:
 Ecuador170,000 .:
 Ivory Coast150,000 (2006).:
 Indonesia118,866 (2010)
 El Salvador100,000.:
 Uruguay75,000.:
 Niger30,000(2001)
Languages
Arabic
Religion
Predominantly:
Related ethnic groups
Other peoples of the Middle East and North Africa

The Arabs (Arabic: العرب) are an ethnic group in West Asia and North Africa. They speak Arabic which is one of the Semitic languages, and which is also the name of the ethnic family which they belong to. Genealogically, Arabs are those who can trace their ancestry back to the people who first lived on the Arabian Peninsula. During the Middle Ages, Islam and Christianity fostered a vast Arab union, leading to significant Arab migrations around the world under the rule of Arab empires such as the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid.

Who is an Arab

There are three points which can decide whether someone is considered Arab or not:

Minorities in some Arab countries include the Iraqi Turkmens, Berbers (Amazigh) and Bedouins.

There are many people who can be called Arabs by these points, but who do not think of themselves as Arab. Examples include modern Copts, Kurds, the Assyrians and Moroccans. Although they live in countries like Syria or Egypt which are part of the Arab League and have Arabic as an official language, they consider themselves different ethnic groups. They have their own languages, culture, identity and churches, such as the Coptic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, and the Syriac Orthodox Church. Even though a number have assimilated to Arab society, they have their own heritage that spans 3,000 years.

Traditional genealogy

In Islamic and Jewish tradition, Arabs are a Semitic people from the Ishmaelites, who trace their ancestry from Ishmael, a son of the ancient patriarch Abraham and Hagar and of the sons from Abhraham and his wife Keturah. Medieval Arab genealogists separate the Arabs into two groups: the "original Arabs" (Bedouin) of South Arabia, descending from Qahtan (identified with the biblical Joktan) and the "Arabized Arabs" (musta`ribah) of North Arabia (The Levant), descending from Adnan who is descended from Ishmael.

Religion

Most Arabs today follow the religion of Islam, whose central prophet is Muhammad. Christianity makes up the largest religious minority - most of the Christians that do consider themselves Arabs belong to the Greek Orthodox Church with smaller numbers of Roman Catholics.

While Coptic and Maronite Catholic Christians are native Arabic-speakers, many reject the Arab pan-ethnicity, but are still considered Arab by outsider sources.

There are some small communities practicing Judaism and polytheism (the worship of many gods).

Notes

  1. ↑ Including 1–2 million native Arabs and 3,763,565 registered Syrian refugees.

References

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