Khorasani Arabs

Arabs in Khorasan
**عرب‌های خراسان**
**عرب خراسان**
Total population
	500,000 (2024)
Regions with significant populations
	South Khorasan ; Razavi Khorasan
Languages
	Persian, Arabic (Khorasani Arabic)
Religion
	Shia Islam, minority Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
	-

Khorasani Arabs are Iranian Arabs who are descended from the Arabs who immigrated to the Khorasan area of Iran during the Abbasid Caliphate (750−1258). Unlike the Arabs of Iran's Khuzestan Province in the southwestern part of the country, who are direct descendants 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 Ibn Al-Athir, the Abbasids settled about 50,000 Arab families in Iranian Khorasan, modern day Northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan, but the number is definitely exaggerated.^[3]

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

[Ahmadi-1] 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.

[Hitti2002-2] 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.

[3] 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)

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Total population

500,000 (2024) ^[1]
Regions with significant populations
South Khorasan Razavi Khorasan
Languages
Persian, Arabic (Khorasani Arabic)
Religion
Shia Islam, minority Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
-

Khorasani Arabs

See also

Sources