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Arab: Encyclopedia - Arab
The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originatin...
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Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Religions
Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, M...
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Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Who Is An Arab?
The definition of who an Arab is has several aspects:
Ethnic identity: someone who considers himself to be an Arab (regardless of racial...
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Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - History
The first written attestation of the ethnonym "Arab" occurs in an Assyrian inscription of 853 BC, where Shalmaneser III lists a King Gind...
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Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Traditional Genealogy
Medieval Arab genealogists divided the Arabs into three groups:
the "ancient Arabs", tribes that had been destroyed or vanished, such as...
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