2018年5月17日 · Muslim Arabs comprize about 93 percent of the Arab population and belong to several different sects including Shia (Ithna Ashari and Ismaili), Alawi, Zaidi, and Sunni, which is the largest. The other 7 percent of Arabs are largely Christian or Druze. The link between Arabs and Islam has deep historical roots. It was among Arabs early in the ...

2018年6月8日 · Arabs who live in Israel and its territories are called Palestinian Arabs. Palestinian Arabs are followers of Islam, therefore they are Muslims. Those called Israelis are Jews. Because Palestinian Arabs and Israelis feel that they are entitled to a nation on the same land, each group demonstrates its hatred and distrust for the other.

Arabs turned for direction to the Arab League, which formed in 1944 as a body to coordinate the political and economic efforts of Arab member states. The organization resolved to protect Palestine from the threat of Zionism, but infighting between Arab leaders for ultimate control of the league weakened its effectiveness in responding to the issue.

Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs)PRONUNCIATION: mah-DAHNALTERNATE NAMES: Marsh ArabsLOCATION: Iraq (marshes at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers)POPULATION: Fewer than 20,000 (2003 estimate)LANGUAGE: ArabicRELIGION: Islam (Shia Muslim) Source for information on Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs): Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life …

Street Arabs and Street Urchins An alarming 1849 report by New York City police chief George Matsell raised the specter of over ten thousand "vagrant, idle and vicious children of both sexes" roaming the city streets, begging, stealing, or making their way as prostitutes.

Arabs used the name Azania, from the root word Zanj—their term for Africans—to describe all of East Africa south of Somalia. From the beginning, their interest was purely in the coastal areas, and as the thriving cities of Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, and others took shape, they became islands of civilization cut off from the forbidding ...

The combination of peoples under the rubric Semites in Genesis 10 is not justified by the linguistic criterion. The common features of the languages of the Assyrians, Arameans, and Arabs, which suffice to mark them as members of one family, set them apart from the "Semite" Lydians (Lud) and Elamites, whose languages are totally unrelated.

On the Ural River at the northern tip of the Caspian (today the Ural and the mountains of the same name are recognized as the boundary between Europe and Asia), the Arabs met the Pechenegs, another Turkish tribe.

ARAB REVOLT (1916) Uprising of Arab nationalists against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.. Although many Arabs had reached the highest positions in the Ottoman government by the end of the nineteenth century, opposition to Turkish authority was spreading through the empire's Arabic-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

2018年5月17日 · Semite a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs. The name comes via Latin from Greek Sēm ‘Shem’, son of Noah in the Bible, from whom these people were …