0
Arabic Language and Culture
Most of the Middle Eastern and North African countries are dominated by Arabic Language and Culture. The Arabic language has many Hebrew and Persian loan words, and its loan words in turn are found in Portuguese, Sicilian, and Spanish. Questions typically refer to Arabic culture and its geographic range, language, local dialects and their widespread use in business, classical and modern writings, everyday life, and religion.
2,697 Questions
What Arab countries were colonized by Spain?
Portions of Morocco (under the name "Spanish Protectorate of Morocco) were colonized by Spain, as was Western Sahara/Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (under the name "Spanish Sahara"), which is currently claimed and occupied by Morocco, but recognized as an independent country by 85 other states, with 40 of these having active diplomatic relations.
Spain still controls the cities of Ceuta and Mellila on the northern coast of Morocco, and the cities are generally considered part of Spain, although Morocco claims the territory.
What type of Muslims are Arabs?
Islam was founded in the cities of Mecca and Medina, in what is now Saudi Arabia. Thus the early followers of Islam were Arabs, and the Quran was revealed in Arabic. However, not all Arabs are Muslims, just as not all Muslims are Arabs. Arabs only make a small part of the Muslim population. A great many Muslims come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Russia, Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Albania, North Africa & Eastern Europe.
What did Arabs and Jews do after Israel was established?
The Arab Nations surrounding Israel declared war on it the day after it declared independence, but the Jewish and Arab Militias in the territory had already been fighting since November of 1947, so nothing really changed for them; the war just got much bigger and became official.
How did the Arab spring affect people in Egypt?
It led to the current Syrian Civil War in that it gave hope to the Sunni majority of Syria that they could overthrow the yoke of Bashar al-Assad's tyranny. Of course, the problem is that they would like to institute their own form of tyranny as recompense.
What was the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors?
Answer 1 - Listing
There are numerous causes to this conflict and the list below is not exhaustive.
1) "Wipe Israel off the Map" Statements: Arab Nationalists, especially Charismatic Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, were pushing strongly for Israel's elimination and made daily speeches about how the Arab States were going to invade and remove Israel from the map to form a unified Arab State. He began to coordinate military strategy with Syria and Jordan (to a lesser degree) as to how to invade Israel effectively. These threats were made daily and consistently in 1967. Additional troops were added to the Egyptian Army and that army began to be arrayed closer and closer to the Israeli border.
2) Removal of UNEF Forces: As a condition of the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, the UN deployed security forces to the Sinai Peninsula to prevent Egypt from massing troops in the Sinai. Nasser evicted the UNEF (the UN security force) from the Sinai Peninsula in contravention of the Armistice for the 1956 Suez Crisis and placed large numbers of Egyptian soldiers and armored divisions on the Israeli-Egyptian border.
3) Arab Military Coordination: Nasser coordinated military strategy quite closely with Syria and Jordan. It was clear to many at the time that these forces would not sit idle for long. A number of Syrian battalions were positioning themselves in the Golan Heights above the Sea of Galilee and Jordanian positions in the West Bank were becoming more entrenched.
4) Closure of Waterways: Egypt, counter to the armistice ending the 1956 War, closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping and then proceeded to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, cutting Israel off from trade with Iran which was Israel's greatest ally in the Middle East at the time and primary supplier of petroleum. This had the effect of strangling Israel and is considered by Israel to be the primary causus belli.
5) Best Defense is a Good Offense: Israel realized that its borders were too close to for them to risk an Arab Invasion of Israel before retaliating. Israel would have to fight a pre-emptive war in order to secure the best probability of success in a military engagement. The first act of open warfare was when Israel destroyed 2/3 of the Egyptian Air Force on the tar mac on June 5, 1967.
6) Imperialist Israel: (Written by someone else) It's when Israel wanted to occupy "their" land, and decided to attack their neighboring Arab countries for it.
Answer 2 - Discussion
The Six-Day War had a number of proximate and chronic causes.
Chronic Causes: Israel and the Arab States were only in Armistice for 18 years and during that time Arab Nationalism really developed. One of its cornerstones was Pan-Arab Unity and a non-Arab State (like Israel) that divided Arabs from each other (not to mention the Palestinian Exodus) was a wedge in that dream. Therefore, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly threatened to push Israel "into the sea." Israel was also very jumpy in the sense that they had little in the way of international protection (as the United States did not become a strong backer of Israel until after the Six-Day War) and very indefensible borders.
Proximate Causes: Egypt made a number of overt threats to the peace and security of Israel. They closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli Shipping which cut off Israel from Iran (who at that time was ruled by the Shah and in Alliance with Israel) and other South Asian Nations. This severely diminished Israel's ability to procure petroleum. Also the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan mobilized their troops to surround Israel and kicked out the UN observers who had been maintaining the Armistice.
Between the fear of a slow death (because of the lack of petroleum) and the fear of a quick death (because of the mobilized armies on its borders) Israel decided that a surprise attack was the best way to deal with these threats. Israel never expected the attack to be the overwhelming success that it was.
No,
The Turks are a people originally from Central Asia. It is widely believed that they originate from the Altay mountains in the west of Mongolia. The Original Turks may have also been a Mongolic people who mixed with a Caucasoid people of central Asia called the Tocharians to form the modern day Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Turkey. It is very possible the word Turk is derived from the word Tochar. Turkic people include (Turkish, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Uyghurs, Tatars, Kazakhs, Turkmens and Kyrgyzis. All Turkic people today speak Altaic languages which are similiar to Mongolian.
The Arabs on the other hand are a caucasian race that originate from the middle east.
What is email address of king abdullah bin abdul aziz saudi arab?
I need this information, too.
Please give me answer to my_paradise_1996@hotmail.com.
Thx!
Why did israel and the Arabs go to war after israel became independent country?
Arabs, who form the majority of the Middle East were initially angry with the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to fellow Arabs' parents and grandparents should have remained in Arab hands as inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming. This is why the Arabs urged their states to take military action against the Jewish State.
During the Jewish-Arab engagement (the term is nebulous because it was a conflict fought by militias as opposed to proper armies) of 1947-1949, both Arab and Jewish soldiers committed acts against civilians and tried to assist in the removal of the "undesirable party". This resulted in numerous Palestinian towns being attacked, rapes occurring, and murders on numerous occasions. Fear of further attacks and incitement by Arab Mullahs drove many Palestinians away from their homes. After the conflict, Israel, in order to maintain its Jewish character, has not permitted any Palestinian refugee to reclaim land inside of Israel. Arabs are very angry both at the Jewish malfeasance during the Jewish-Arab engagement and the continuing lack of the Palestinian Right to Return.
Sudan, located in northeastern Africa, is Africa's largest country. Sudan is predominantly an arid (dry), desert land except immediately around the Nile River, which flows northward through central and eastern Sudan.
Sudan gained independence from Britain in 1956, but became embattled in civil war for much of the second half of the twentieth century. The first civil war ended in 1972, but the region had only about a decade before a second civil was broke out in 1983 and continued until January 2005. The wars were rooted in strife between the Arab Muslims in the north who control the political, economic, and social web of the country, and the people of the southern region, where the country's oil resources are located. The southern people are Christian.
Who is the president of Arab Republic of Egypt?
Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the President of Egypt in 1973. He took office in 1970 and served until he was assassinated in 1981. In 1973, he led the country in what was called the October War in order to liberate the Sinai Peninsula from Israel.
1 arab=100 crores so there are 9 zeroes in 1 arab i.e 1000000000.
How and why Islam came in Arab?
Arabian peninsula is the place where all major religions of the world originated including Judaism , Christianity and Islam .
What areas did Arab armies conquer?
The Arabs were a backwards and disorganized group until Muhammed organized them as a coherent military force. The Rise of Islam is thus the only time in history when Arabs conquered anybody. (After the Rise of Islam, the Arab World fell prey to Turkish invaders (like the Ottomans and Seljuqs) and still later than that European Powers.
The Islamic Caliphate effectively destroyed the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires. (The Sassanid internal structure remained unchanged and the Byzantines retained a fraction of their territory in Western Anatolia and Southeastern Europe.) The Arabs also overthrew what remained of the Western Roman Empire in Africa like Carthage in Tunisia. Finally the Arabs (assisted strongly by the indigenous North African Amazigh - Berber peoples) conquered Visigothic Spain, taking everything save the Northern coast.
Who is the largest Arab country in population?
Of all of the nations in the Arab World, Egypt has a population of over 81 million people, making it the largest Arab Country population.
If the search is restricted to Arab Countries in the Middle East and Arabia, the answer is Iraq with over 31 million citizens.
Another name for a Arab prince?
Amir also spelled amer, ameer. Amir is the Arabic word for prince but it is used in English as well. its definition in an English dictionairy is the following.
amir means an independent ruler or chieftain in Arabia.
What was the social condition of Arabs before Islam in urdu?
befoure islam arab condition their religion political
What is the Arab influence in the Philippines?
Influences of Arabs in the Philippine culture:
1. Islam
2. Sultan government
3. Arabic language
4. Arabic writing system
5. Words like apo, sulat, alamat at salamat, came from the Arabic words ima, kitab and kali.
6. the use of calendar
7. "singkil" dance
What is imagery of the poem the bewildered Arab?
this poetry conveys a story of an arab hooked in confusion. on his way to enlightenment, he met someone who helped him and divined him. in the resolution, he saw someone struggling with the same dilemma.
Which Arab spring countries recently overthrew dictators?
Since 18 December 2010 there have been revolutions in Tunisia[2] and Egypt;[3] a civil war in Libya resulting in the fall of its regime;[4] civil uprisings in Bahrain,[5] Syria,[6] and Yemen;[7] major protests in Israel,[8] Algeria,[9] Iraq,[10] Jordan,[11] Morocco,[12] and Oman,[13] and minor protests in Kuwait,[14] Lebanon,[15] Mauritania, Saudi Arabia,[16] Sudan,[17] and Western Sahara.[18] Clashes at the borders of Israel in May 2011 have also been inspired by the regional Arab Spring.[19]
What did Arab merchants bring to Asia Africa and Europe?
Muslim traders brought Islam and salt from North Africa to West Africa.
What is the capital of the largest Arab country in population in northern Africa?
Africa DOES have a capital. Every continant and every state and every country has a capital smart butt. I just asked an answer. I'm trying to find the capital. look it up.
Were the first people on earth Arabs?
No they were not. The Arabs are descendants of Adams son Cain who was cursed with a dark skin. Ham's wife was a descendant of his, and also had a dark skin. We can trace the Arabs through her lineage.
Another perspective
There were apparently 4 races of humans before this present one. Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian texts give very important information regarding this. Apparently Africa is not the origin of man, some say Sumar (Iraq) and some say Eire (Ireland).
Non Arabs who converted into Islam in the early Islam era were called 'Mawali' that means in English people who supports the first nucleus of Arab Muslims. However, this term in longer of use especially that non Arab Muslims now accounts for around 85% of total world Muslims while the Arab Muslims account for only 15%.
