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major reference
- In Arabia: Ethnic groups

distribution

Africa

In Africa: Northern Africa

Algeria
- In Algeria: Ethnic groups
Chad
- In Chad: Ethnic groups
Kenya
- In Kenya: Ethnic groups and languages
Libya
- In Libya: Ethnic groups and languages
Mauritania
- In Mauritania: Ethnic groups
- In Mauritania: Ethnic groups
Morocco
- In Morocco: Ethnic groups
Somalia
- In Somalia: Ethnic groups
Sudan
- In Sudan: Ethnic groups
Zanzibar
- In Zanzibar: Geography

Asia

Bahrain
- In Bahrain: Ethnic groups
Iran
- In Iran: Ethnic groups
Iraq
- In Iraq: Arabs of Iraq
Israel
- In Israel: Rural settlement
- In Israel: The arts of Israel
Jordan
- In Jordan
Lebanon
- In Lebanon
Oman
- In Oman: Ethnic groups
Ottoman Empire
- In Ottoman Empire: The people
Palestine
- In Palestine: People
Saudi Arabia
- In Saudi Arabia: Ethnic groups
Syria
- In Syria: Ethnic and linguistic groups
Tigris-Euphrates River System
- In Tigris-Euphrates river system: People
Yemen
- In Yemen: Ethnic groups

United States
- In United States: Middle Easterners

history

conquest of

Alexandria
- In Alexandria: Roman and Byzantine periods
ancient Near East
- In ancient Middle East: The Achaemenian Empire and its successors
Egypt
- In Egypt: Period of Arab and Turkish governors (639–868)
North Africa
- In North Africa: The Byzantine period
- In North Africa: Morocco under sharifian dynasties

contributions to

alchemy
- In alchemy: Arabic alchemy
black powder
- In explosive: History of black powder
dress development
- In dress: The Middle East from the 6th century
geography
- In European exploration: The exploration of the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
- In geography: The emergence of geography: exploration and mapping
gunpowder development
- In gunpowder
hospitals
- In hospital: History of hospitals
logic
- In history of logic: Arabic logic
publishing
- In history of publishing: General considerations
trigonometry
- In trigonometry: India and the Islamic world
rocket use
- In rocket and missile system: Early history

migration patterns

In Asia: Historical migrations

Mogadishu
- In Mogadishu

role in

Arabia
- In history of Arabia
Beirut
- In Beirut: Economic and political conditions
eastern Africa
- In eastern Africa: Azania
- In eastern Africa: Missionary activity
Egypt
- In Egypt: World War II and its aftermath
Gaul
- In France: Charles Martel and Pippin III
India
- In India: Successor states
Israel
- In 20th-century international relations: The creation of Israel
Italy
- In Italy: The role of Rome
- In Italy: The south, 774–1000
Jaffa
- In Tel Aviv–Yafo: History of Tel Aviv–Yafo
Jordan
- In Jordan: Ethnic groups
Mesopotamia
- In history of Mesopotamia: The Sasanian period
Morocco
- In Morocco: The pre-World War II period
Mozambique
- In Mozambique: The rise of the zimbabwe civilizations
Nubia
- In Sudan: Medieval Christian kingdoms
Palestine
- In Zionism
- In Palestine: The rise of Islam
- In Palestine: The Oslo Accords
Sāsānian Iran
- In Battle of Nahāvand
- In ancient Iran: Triumph of the Arabs
Spain
- In Spain: The conquest
Sri Lanka
- In Sri Lanka: Foreign trade
Suez Crisis
- In 20th-century international relations: The Suez Crisis
Tajikistan
- In Tajikistan: Early history and Islamic period
Tanzania
- In Tanzania: Early exploration
western Africa
- In western Africa: Muslims in western Africa

Arab integration
- In Arab integration
Lawrence on guerrilla warfare
opposition to Sykes-Picot Agreement
- In Sykes-Picot Agreement: Impact and legacy
Pan-Arabism
- In Pan-Arabism

Article Contributors

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Invalidated site: Academia - The Bedouin and the Arab - Khaldun and the Assimilation of a Great People.	Gloria Lotha	May 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Minority Rights Group - Arabs in Iran.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 31, 2023
	Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Arab.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 18, 2023
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Bedouin and the Arab - Khaldun and the Assimilation of a Great People.	Emily Rodriguez	Nov 01, 2022
	Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center - Who is an Arab?	Emily Rodriguez	Sep 01, 2022
	Add new Web site: Arab American Stories - History.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 11, 2019
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Jul 25, 2018
	Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center - Who is an Arab?	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 06, 2018
	Add new Web site: HistoryWorld - Arab.	Grace Young	Jan 18, 2013
	Add new Web site: LookLex Encyclopaedia - Arab.	Grace Young	Jan 18, 2013
	Changed "The Sudan" to "Sudan."	Amy McKenna	Mar 26, 2012
	Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Apatosaurus.	Veenu Setia	Oct 16, 2008
	Added new Web site: ArabNet.	Marco Sampaolo	Jun 01, 2006
	Added new Web site: ArabNet.	Marco Sampaolo	Jun 01, 2006
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 10, 2005
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998