Category:Arab people
| Classification: Semitic-speaking peoples: Arab people |
Arabs are Arabic-speaking nations who mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia and Northern Africa. Ancient Historic Arabians of West Asia consisted of descendants of the nomadic people who inhabited the northern and central Arabian peninsula and Syrian Desert as well as the peoples who acquired the ethnic, linguistic, cultural, historical, identical, nationalist, geographical and political identity.[1] Today, the term "Arab" generally refers to Arabic-speaking peoples whose native regions form the Arab world, including populations that acquired an Arab linguistic and cultural identity through the historical spread of Arabization, particularly following the early Arab conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries.
Articles listed under any of the subcategories of Category:Arab people by century and Category:Arab people by occupation include:
- people from the Arab world before present-day nationalities were carved out (including many medieval people);
- people from the Arab world who did not self-identify with any more precise nationality;
- people from the Arab world whose nationality is not indicated in the article.
Other Arab people should fall into subgroups of the category.
People from the modern country of Saudi Arabia fall under Category:Saudi Arabian people.
Groups from pre-Islamic Arabia fall under Category:Tribes of Arabia.
- ↑ Facts about Arabs and the Arab World, retrieved 10 February 2024
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Pages in category "Arab people"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
