The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. 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 or ethnic origin) and is recognized as such by others. Linguistic: someone whose first language is Arabic (including any of its varieties); this d ...

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Medieval Arab genealogists divided the Arabs into three groups: the "ancient Arabs", tribes that had been destroyed or vanished, such as Ad and Thamud; they are often alluded to in the Qur'an as examples of God's power to destroy wicked peoples. the "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 Qahtanite Arabs were responsible for the ancient civilizations of Yemen, notably ...

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Palestinian refugee - Jordan. Jordan is the only Arab country which historically gave citizenship rights to Palestinian refugees. After the 1967 Six-Day War, during which Israel captured the West Bank, Palestinians living there continued to have the right to apply for Jordanian passports and live in Jordan. Palestinian refugees actually living in Jordan were considered full Jordanian citizens as well. In July 1988, King Hussein of Jordan announced the severing of all legal and administrative ties with the West Ba ...

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Many Palestinians had already become refugees by the time neighboring Arab states attacked the newly established State of Israel in 1948, and the exodus continued during the war until after the armistice that ended it (see Palestinian Exodus.) These refugees, the great majority of whom had lived there for generations, were generally not permitted to return to their homes. The final estimate of their number was 711,000, according to the United Nations Conciliation Commission (General Progress Report and Supplementary Report of the U ...

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Algeria: 7,500,000 Tunisia:    200,000 Libya:    250,000+ Mauretania:    80,000 Egypt:    10,000 France:    1,000,000 Spain:    50,000 Israel:    50,000   Semitic The Berbers (also called Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afro ...

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Arab Christians are people who are ethnically Arab and who follow the religion of Christianity. There are believed to be nearly 9 million Arab Christians in the Arab world and 30-35 million worldwide. The majority of Christian Arabs live in the Middle East where, although Islam is undoubtedly the preponderant religion, significant religious minorities exist in a number of countries. Large numbers of Arab Christians can be found in Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and in emigrant communities in Australia, B ...

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The League was established on March 22, 1945. When the League founding pact was signed in Cairo, Egypt, "[t]he Arab League states collectively put their weight behind the basic demands of Palestine's Arabs but arrogated to themselves the right to select who would represent the Palestinians in their councils, so long as their country was not independent." 1 (p.173) By the end of World War II, the Palestinian Arabs were left leaderless. The mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin ...

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Arabic is a Semitic language. See Arabic language for more information on the language in general. This article describes the grammar of Classical Arabic. Arabic grammar - History. Due to the rapid expansion of Islam in the 8th century, many people learned Arabic as a lingua franca. For this reason, the earliest grammatical treatises on Arabic are often written by non-native speakers. The earliest grammarian who is known to us is Including:

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Arab diaspora refers to the numbers of Arab immigrants, and their descendants, who voluntarily or as refugees emigrated from their native countries and now reside in non-Arab nations, primarily in Western countries as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa (West Africa, primarily Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Liberia). The Americas have long been a place of Arab migration, arriving as early as the nineteenth century in some countries. The largest Arab colony in the world resides in Brazil, which has over 12 million Brazilians of Arab ...

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Yemenite Jews (תֵּימָנִי, Standard Hebrew Temani, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānî; plural תֵּימָנִים, Standard Hebrew Temanim, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānîm) are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן "far south", Standard Hebrew Teman, Tiberian Hebrew Têmān), on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. They are sometimes considered to be Mizrahi. Yemenite Jews - History of the community. Loc ...

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Surat As-Saaffat (Arabic: سورة الصافات ) (Those Who Set The Ranks, Drawn Up In Ranks) is the 37th sura of the Qur'an with 182 ayat. ...

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Surat Al-Naziat (Arabic: سورة النازعات ) (Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers) is the 79th sura of the Qur'an with 46 ayat. ...

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Surat Al-Mutaffifin (Arabic: سورة المطففين ) (or "those who deal in fraud") is the 83rd sura of the Qur'an with 36 ayat. ...

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Infidel. An infidel is an unbeliever in respect to a particular religion, especially Christianity or Islam. In Islam, kafir is most commonly translated from Arabic into English as "infidel". In general, an infidel is one who doubts or rejects a particular doctrine, system, or principle. see Infidel (computer game) for the 1983 computer text adventure from Infocom. Other related archives1983, Arabic

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Bahamut (Arabic: بهموت Bahamūt) is originally an aquatic figure of Arabic mythology, though this figure has been significantly altered in the process of modernization. Bahamut is an enormous fish that resides in a vast sea. He supports a huge bull named Kujuta who has four thousand eyes, and the same number of ears, noses, mouths, tongues and feet. Between every one of each is a distance of fiv ...

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Danna was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Besides name of the village, danna also means a man who had adopted a formal relationship with a geisha in Japan (please see Memoirs of a Geisha for further details). See also. List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ...

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Whereas most refugees are the concern of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), most Palestinian refugees - those in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan - come under the older body UNRWA. On 11 December 1948, UN Resolution 194 was passed in order to protect the rights of Palestinian Arab refugees. Resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949, set up UNRWA specifically to deal with the Palestinian problem. Palestinian refugees outside ...

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Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawi بدوي, a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert. It is occasionally used to refer to non-Arab groups as well, notably the Beja of the African coast of the Red Sea. Bedouin - Changing ways of life. Starting in the 1950s and 196 ...

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Constantine IV (649-685) was Byzantine emperor from 668-685. He had been named a co-emperor with his father Constans II in 654, and became emperor when Constans was assassinated in 668. The most immediate threat to the empire under his reign were the Arabs, who sent a fleet to attack Constantinople by sea in 674. While Constantine was diverted by this, the Slavs attacked Thessalonika. Constantinople survived the Arab siege until 678, when the Byzantines employed Greek fire against the Arab fleet at the Battle of Syllaeum ...

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