Khorasani Arabs
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Total population | |
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50,000[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
South Khorasan Razavi Khorasan | |
Languages | |
Persian, Arabic (Khorasani Arabic) | |
Religion | |
Shia Islam, Minority Sunni Islam |
Khorasani Arabs are Iranian Arabs who are descended from the Arabs who immigrated to this area of Iran during the Abbasid Caliphate (750−1258). Unlike the Arabs of Iran's Khuzestan Province, who are direct descendents of the ancient population of the area, the Khorasani Arabs are descended from actual Arab migrants.[1] According to a 2013 article in peer-reviewed journal Iran and the Caucasus, the Khorasani Arabs, numbering c. 50,000, are "already almost totally Persianised".[1]
Most Khorasani Arabs belong to the tribes of Shaybani, Zangooyi, Mishmast, Khozaima, and Azdi. Khorasan Arabs are Persian speakers, and only a few speak Khorasani Arabic as their native language. The cities of Birjand, Mashhad, and Nishapur are home to large groups of Khorasani Arabs.[2][full citation needed]
According to İbn Al-Athir, the Arabic conquerors settled about 50.000 Arabic families in to Iranian Khorasan, modern day Northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan, but the number is definitely exaggerated. [3]
See also
Sources
- ^ a b c Ahmadi, Hamid (2013). "Political Elites and the Question of Ethnicity and Democracy in Iran: A Critical View". Iran and the Caucasus. 17 (1): 82. doi:10.1163/1573384X-20130106.
- ^ Hitti, Philip (2002). History of the Arabs, Revised: 10th Edition (PDF) (10th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-63142-3. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ Prof. Dr. Aydın Usta, Türkler ve İslamiyet, Yeditepe Yayınevi, 1. Baskı, March 2020, s. 56-57 (using the Turkish translation of el-Kamil fi't-Tarih by İbn Al-Athir as a source)
- Persian and German Wikipedia
- Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian. By Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani. Page 162.
- Khorasani Arabic