Arabs

E5830

cultural group ethnic group ethnolinguistic group

Arabs are a diverse ethnolinguistic group originating from the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding regions, united primarily by the Arabic language and a shared cultural and historical heritage.

Observed surface forms (19)

Surface form	Occurrences
Arab	46
Arab American	6
Arab Americans	6
Sunni Arabs	3
Arab culture	2
Arab American community	1
Arab Chadians	1
Arab Malays	1
Arab people	1
Bedouin	1
Hadhrami	1
Iranian Arabs	1
Iraqi Arabs	1
Levantine Arab	1
Ottoman Arabs	1
Shuwa Arab communities	1
Sudanese Arabs	1
Syrian people	1
Yemenis	1

Statements (84)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural group ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ ethnolinguistic group ⓘ
ancestralHomeland	Arabian Peninsula ⓘ
associatedReligion	Christianity ⓘ Druze faith ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ other religions ⓘ
culturalRegion	Arab world ⓘ Arabian Peninsula ⓘ Horn of Africa ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ
diasporaPresence	Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ
dominantRiteInChristianity	Eastern Christianity ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ
ethnicity	Arabs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Arab
historicalEmpire	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ various Arab caliphates and sultanates ⓘ
historicalLanguageOfCulture	Classical Arabic ⓘ
includeSpeakersOf	Egyptian Arabic ⓘ Gulf Arabic ⓘ Hijazi Arabic ⓘ Mesopotamian Arabic ⓘ surface form: Iraqi Arabic Levantine Arabic ⓘ Maghrebi Arabic ⓘ Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ Najdi Arabic ⓘ Sudanese Arabic ⓘ Yemeni Arabic ⓘ
languageBranch	Central Semitic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Semitic languages ⓘ
liturgicalLanguage	Classical Arabic ⓘ
macrolanguage	Arabic ⓘ surface form: Arabic language
majorHoliday	Eid al-Adha ⓘ Eid al-Fitr ⓘ Ramadan ⓘ
majorityReligion	Islam ⓘ
memberStatesOrganization	Arab League ⓘ
notableHistoricalCenter	Baghdad ⓘ Cairo ⓘ Cordoba (historical) ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Mecca ⓘ Medina ⓘ
originRegion	Arabian Peninsula ⓘ Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ surface form: Levant Mesopotamia ⓘ North Africa ⓘ
politicalOrganization	Arab League ⓘ
populationScope	one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in the world ⓘ tens of millions ⓘ
primaryLanguage	Arabic ⓘ
religiousDiversity	Druze ⓘ Ibadi Islam ⓘ surface form: Ibadi Muslims Shia Islam ⓘ surface form: Shia Muslims Sunni Islam ⓘ surface form: Sunni Muslims secular and non-religious individuals ⓘ various Christian denominations ⓘ
religiousTextLanguage	Quran in Arabic ⓘ
selfIdentificationCriterion	Arab cultural affiliation ⓘ Arabic as native language ⓘ descent from Arab ancestors ⓘ
sharedHeritage	Arab cuisine ⓘ Arab culture ⓘ Arab customs and traditions ⓘ Arab music ⓘ Arabic literature ⓘ Arabic poetry ⓘ
traditionalLifestyle	nomadic pastoralism ⓘ oasis agriculture ⓘ sedentary urban life ⓘ
traditionalSocialStructure	tribal system ⓘ
UNESCOCulturalHeritage	Arabic calligraphy ⓘ Arabic coffee culture ⓘ Falconry in Arab culture ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ

Referenced by (123)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tanzimat → affected → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ottoman Arabs

British Iraq Mandate → appliesToEthnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Arab nationalism → associatedWithEthnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Chalhoub → associatedWithEthnicity → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Levantine Arab

Ottoman Palestine → containsEthnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Jordanian American → culturalIdentity → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab American

Kingdom of Sicily → culturalInfluence → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Karbala → demographicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sunni Arabs

Kingdom of Granada → ethnicComposition → Arabs ⓘ

Abdul Fatah Younis → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Abdul Rahman Azzam → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Al-Kindi → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Aminah bint Wahb → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

as-Saffah → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

subject surface form: As-Saffah

this entity surface form: Arab

Averroes → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Ayesha Gaddafi → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Basra → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Chadians → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab Chadians

Cyrenaica → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Deir ez-Zor → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

eastern Turkey → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Turkey

Fezzan → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

French Algeria → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

French North Africa → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

House of Hashim → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

House of Saud → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Ibn Khaldun → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Ibn Muqla → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Ibn al-Nafis → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Manama → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Mir Jafar → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Mombasa → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Mosul → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Muammar Gaddafi → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Mustafa Abdul Jalil → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Mutassim Gaddafi → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Najd → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

Qasim ibn Muhammad → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Qeshm Island → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Iranian Arabs

Queen Zein al-Sharaf → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Qusay Hussein → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Sajida Talfah → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Syria → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Uday Hussein → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arab

Zanzibar → ethnicGroup → Arabs ⓘ