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| | Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Following the Islamic conquest of the 8th century, however, the language of the nomadic Arabs came to be regarded as preserving the highest purity by the grammarians following Abi Ishaq, and the term kalam al-ʿArab "language of the Arabs" came to denote the uncontaminated language of the Bedouins. | | | Throughout much of this area, the Arabs spread the religion of Islam and the Arabic language (the language of the Qur'an) through conversion and assimilation. | | | Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, Manat, and Uzza, while some tribes had converted to Christianity or Judaism, and a few individuals, the hanifs, had apparently rejected polytheism in favor of a vague monotheism. |
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| | Arab world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The majority of people in the Arab world adhere to Islam and the religion has official status in most countries. | | | This contrasts with the situation in the wider Islamic world, where Arabic retains its cultural prestige primarily as the language of religion and of theological scholarship, but the populace generally speak do not speak Arabic languages. | | | The Arabic language forms a unifying feature of the Arab world: though different areas use local dialects of Arabic, all share in the use of the standard classical language (see diglossia). |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Arab - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Arabs are a Semitic people, who trace their ancestry from the ancient patriarch Abraham. | | | Most, but not all, Arabs have embraced the religion of Islam. | | | It is often used to refer to any person of the Middle East or North Africa whose mother tongue is the Arabic language. |
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| | The Peace Encyclopedia: Arabic, Arabs, "The Arab World" |
| | [Arabs are] A people/ethnicity/nation, including a culture, language and religion, that originated in the 7th century western Arabian peninsula, and was spread to almost all the aboriginal semitic peoples of the near east by conquest, murder, rape, slavery and forced conversions to Islam. | | | Therefore, it is axiomatic to me that the Lebanese of today are descendants of the Aramaeans of antiquity, the yro-Phoenicians of the Bible, and NOT the Arabs of a mere 13 centuries ago... | | | As a result of the Arab conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean, and because of Islam's sumptuary laws with regard to the People of the Book and the Dhimmis it subjugated, Christians and Jews in the East were reduced to the level of 'tolerated' religious communities in their own homeland. |
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| | Arabs |
| | Arab identity would spread with with the advances of Islam. | | | For a number of reasons, however, Arab lifestyles, Arab identity and Arabic language would come to replace the original lifestyles, identities and languages. | | | Arabs are living in an area of 10 million km², with a total population of 250 million. |
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| | League of Arab States |
| | I am very happy to participate in the Open Day of the German University in Cairo and to join you in celebrating the third anniversary of the GUC which comes along with significant undertakings in promoting modern education in Egypt and enhancing closer Egyptian-German, or one should rather say Arab-European, dialogue and understanding. | | | And it was at the headquarters of the Arab League where Arab and foreign experts and decision makers met for a series of workshops dedicated to the need to overcome the gender-gap in education, to reach out for rural women and to upscale the efforts dedicated for the combat of illiteracy. | | | It was in the documents adopted by the Arab Summit of 2004 in Tunis that stressed the firm determination to intensify effort aiming at combating illiteracy, development and progress of educational reforms, and encouraging the acquisition of knowledge in order to ensure a better tomorrow for the peoples of the Arab world. |
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| | USATODAY.com - U.S. Census reports on Arab-Americans for first time |
| | That's why many Arab Christians emphasize their religion, he says. | | | Most parishioners at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church a few miles away are Arabs. | | | They know that as more of their children marry non-Arabs, their ethnic identity could fade. |
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| | Arab Medical Schools |
| | To understand the nature of Arab medical schools in the Arabic Islamic World, we have to deal with the status of medicine before the 12th century; the Bimaristans: their system and different purposes; medical educational assemblies: their role in configurating physicians' minds and the method that was followed and then conclude with the results. | | | Also, there were some important additions presented by Avicenna, where we find" the first description of anthrax which the Arabs called "The Persian Fire | | | Arab physicians' way of teaching had its characteristics and Abou Bakr al-Razi, maybe the physicians' leader and one of the best physicians of his time to preserve for us in their writings the essentials that a physician should know well, and that teachers should engrave in the pupils mind. |
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| | Arab Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Arab Christians are people who are ethnically Arab or culturally and linguistically arabized and who follow the religion of Christianity. | | | The majority of Christian Arabs live in the Middle East where, although Islam is undoubtedly the preponderant religion, significant religious minorities exist in a number of countries. | | | The use of the term Allah in Arab Christian churches predates its use in Islam by several centuries. |
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| | Arab Inter-parliamentary Union |
| | (The Unified Arab Parliament: Fundamentals and Means of Realization). | | | The Constituent Conference of the Arab IPU was held in Damascus from 19 to 21 June 1974. | | | Since its foundation in 1974, the Arab IPU was keen to effectively participate in the activities of the IPU, especially after acquiring the status of an observer at the IPUs 61st Conference held in Tokyo in 1974. |
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| | The Promise of Arab Liberalism |
| | Many of the programs in MEPI's other three "pillars"—economic reform, educational reform, and women's empowerment—are worthy development projects, and many will no doubt improve the quality of life for Arab men, women, and children. | | | But when the Arab participants drafted a final communiqué for the press conference that included mild criticisms of U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a MEPI representative compelled a last-minute change in the schedule, ensuring that the women were not in attendance at the right time to present their communiqué. | | | Some Arab liberal activists are lawyers, professors, and journalists challenging the de facto political rules by demanding enforcement of the rules as stated in their postcolonial constitutions. |
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| | Detroit - Arab Capital of North America |
| | When I first came to Detroit, I thought that I was still in the Arab world. Muhammad, once a Lebanese, but now an American, remarked when I asked him if he felt a longing for his homeland. | | | Five mosques and 10 churches serve the community, almost evenly split between Christian and Muslim Arabs. | | | A number of the citys judges and county prosecutors are of Arab origin, and lately, Arabs played a major role in the election of Spencer Abraham, the first Arab senator to be elected in the state of Michigan. |
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| | PATRIARCHATE - Patriarchal Letters |
| | When quoting “Christians of the Arab World” I mean those who belong to the currently known Oriental Churches, i.e the Church of Antioch, the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (which originated from the Church of Antioch), the Church of Jerusalem, and the Church of Alexandria. | | | I think that Christians of the Arab World are most qualified and capable of answering the questions asked in a Christian-Muslim dialogue, in order to find a common religious and moral platform between both religions, because of their enormous contribution to the civilisation of the Islamic World from its early days to present. | | | Christians were not cut off from Muslims in isolated areas, but rather shared with them all general matters of life and they built together one unique civilisation, the Arab civilisation. |
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| | CIN - Arab Christian Literature of the 8th-9th Centuries by Dr. George Khoury |
| | Their reason for abandoning their ancient languages and using the language of the conqueror was that the Christians, challenged in their faith, needed Arabic in the defense of their religion and in affirming the faith of wavering believers. | | | The Monophysite church -the doctrine of those Christians who preferred to speak of the one nature of the incarnate word of God also constituted an important Christian element in Syria and was much spread among the Arab Christian tribes of the Syrian desert, namely, among the Ghassanides, Kalbites, and Taglibites. | | | Arabic was the language of the new rulers, and it was inevitable and natural that it soon became the common and official language of the Arab empire. |
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| | Arab - encyclopedia article about Arab. |
| | Throughout much of this area, the Arabs spread the religion of Islam and the Arabic language (the language of the Qur'an) through conversion and assimilation. | | | , most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal Hubal (هبل) was worshipped, notably at the Kaaba at Mecca, where his was the grandest of the idols. | | | the "ancient Arabs", tribes that had been destroyed or vanished, such as Ad and Thamud; they are often alluded to in the Qur'an, and Bible as examples of God's power to destroy wicked peoples. |
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| | Arab and Muslim America |
| | Many Arab and Muslim Americans lost loved ones and friends in the attacks in New York and Washington, and others had loved ones dispatched to Afghanistan as American soldiers to punish those who perpetrated the horror (Muslims are the largest minority religion in the U.S. armed forces). | | | Arab and Muslim organizations were flooded with letters and calls of empathy from leaders and ordinary Americans, including many Jewish Americans, for most understood that at stake were the civil liberties of all Americans. | | | Although Arab Americans were long shunned by political candidates, President Clinton became the first sitting president to speak at conferences of Arab-American organizations, and both President Clinton and President Bush have normalized ongoing consultations with Arab- and Muslim-American leaders. |
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| | United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United Arab Emirates (also called the UAE) is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajmān, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaiwain. | | | United Arab Emirates is now the second-richest country in the Muslim world. | | | Rooted in Islamic culture, the UAE has strong ties with the rest of the Arab world. |
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| | indymedia beirut The History of Arab Christians 22.08.2005 10:36 |
| | These Christian Arab tribes may have found in Islam with its insistence on the indivisibility of God (“La Ilah Illa Allah” meaning ‘There is no God, but God’) a simplified version of their faith. | | | The Christians of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine played a pioneering role in reviving Arab culture from the comatose state it was in under the Ottomans. | | | Palestinian Christians are not suffering at the hands of the Moslems, but at the hands of the Israelis, and the bullet-scarred statue of the Virgin Mary in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is a poignant testimony to this fact. |
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| | Palestinian Christian Arab Elected to Lead the Presbyterian Church |
| | Reverend Abu-Akel is a representative of the "forgotten faithful," Christians of the Holy Land who have had a continuous presence in the Holy Land since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago. | | | Most importantly, HCEF is creating awareness of the plight of Holy Land Christians and informs Americans about the impact that military occupation has had on the spiritual, social and economic lives of all Palestinians living in the land where the Prince of Peace was born, taught and died. | | | The Holy land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is an all-volunteer 501c3 organization with the mission of informing Americans about the ongoing plight of Christians in the Holy Land and provides humanitarian assistance to relieve suffering, educational support and assists in job creation. |
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| | Essay: Arab and Christian |
| | Arab Christians, he says, are a community of faith and tradition. | | | So, while there is considerable support, in the oriental Catholic churches at least, for an Arab Christian identity, there are significant pockets of resistance and, in the case of the Assyrians, persecution for refusal to assimilate. | | | Samir Khalil Samir have rediscovered the writings of the Arab Fathers, and Bishop Giacinto Boulos Marcuzzo, the Latin patriarchal vicar in Israel, teaches Arab patristics to seminarians at the Latin patriarchal seminary in Beit Jala. |
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| | Dhimmi Watch: The Disappearing Arab Christian |
| | Arab Christians live in the bosom of a racist culture that claims superiority over non-Muslims, fueled by a legacy mostly filled with violence and hatred and a history centered on strife, murder and viciousness. | | | A survey of the present situation of Christians living in the Middle East demonstrates a problematic and distressing cycle: Arab Christian populations are declining, resulting in an erosion of their political power, which in turn causes their conditions to worsen and ultimately drives them out of their own homeland. | | | The Christian minorities if they are allowed to come to the West will be model citizens and will assimiliate very quickly with the indegenous populations as they have the religion in common with the western people. |
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| | Master's Thesis |
| | Christian Arabs are in a unique position to be the defenders of secularism in the face of rising Muslim fundamentalism. | | | Paradoxically, however, the influence of Arab Christians began to wane around the 10th century, perhaps early foreshadowing what may be happening in the Middle East, today, as the size and possibly the importance of the Christian minority would appear to be decreasing. | | | More than their Muslim brothers, Christians clearly have a profound connection to the West, and though they often share the anger as Arabs at what they feel is unfair treatment from the US and other Westerners in the region, that anger rarely turns violent and destructive. |
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| | Israeli Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1970, the infant mortality rate for Arabs was 32 deaths for every thousand births. | | | Though they coexist as two self-segregated communities, over the years Jewish and Arab Israelis have come to accept each other, acknowledging the uniqueness and aspirations of each community and participating in a growing number of joint endeavors. | | | Christian Israeli Arabs comprise about 9% of the Israeli Arab population, and reside mostly in the north, Nazareth having the largest Christian Arab population. |
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| | Arab Christian clergymen call Jews 'satanic' |
| | George Habbash, founder of the PFLP was a Christian, and in the manner of Arab political organisations, his followers were often members of the same faith. | | | Christian, Muslim and Judaic shrines should be preserved there with respect for the legitimate rights of every inhabitant of that land and every pilgrim who wishes to visit freely the places of worship. | | | The Church, the Pope, the Christians, and the New Testament clearly state that, according to Christian belief, the ones who killed Jesus are the Jews, and there is no way to deny or renounce this… The Jews are the ones who killed Jesus; after him, [they killed] the Christians, and after them, the Muslims. |
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| | The Arab Culture and Other cultures |
| | One of the aspects of this faith is that one should believe in one’s Umma, that the Arab and Moslem should believe that their Umma is “the best of peoples, evolved for mankind.” As is the case with divine religions, faith in Islam preaches love and brotherhood. | | | The sources of the Arab-Islamic culture are the Holy Qur& and the Sunna of the Prophet. | | | Therefore, one main characteristic of the Arab culture is its blending with other cultures which were prevalent in the early days of Islam, and its acceptance of the contributions of other races, peoples, and followers of other religions and faiths which coexisted with the Arab-Islamic society. |
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| | Dhimmi Watch: Arab Christian longs for dhimmitude |
| | While Arab nationalism was not anti-religious in its secularism, it was always emphatic in acknowledging the equality of Christians and Muslims, and the need to leave religion to the spiritual sphere. | | | Not only among Arabs, but also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sudan... | | | Arab Christian institutions, such as schools, hospitals and non-governmental organizations, which are often funded by Christian churches in the West, continue in the same tradition to promote the interests of their people, especially in the face of invasion, occupation or aggression by the West. |
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| | The Arab Heritage |
| | Some of the Moalakat as well the first translations of the Bible and the Gospel, prayers, liturgy are some examples of the work of the Christians of Arabic Language. | | | The Arab Christians are the first to convert to Christianism. | | | Excerpt from "History of Arab Thought" These three following phases are the foundation for social and diplomatic Arab History, and the Nucleus of Arab expansion and their thought and culture. |
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| | Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Hebrews, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs, and, in part, Crusaders before finally coming under the control of the Ottoman Turks. | | | Cham Press A complete roundup of news about Syria (in Arabic) | | | Syria News Independent Publication from Damascus (in Arabic) |
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| | Major Anti-Semitic Motifs in Arab Cartoons - Joël Kotek |
| | As the Arab world is in a rather poor state, they claim that its masters, i.e., the Jews, are the cause of their problems. | | | What the Arabs forget in the caricatures is that George W. Bush was their candidate in the last American elections. | | | Several hundred Arab cartoons from Kotek's collection are categorized according to ten anti-Semitic themes in his book: "The first theme is based on the oldest anti-Semitic motif, demonization of the Jew. |
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| | "The Other Refugees: Jews of the Arab World" by George E. Gruen |
| | The Jews that remained within the confines of other Arab states after the mass exoduses of the late 1940s and early 1950s experienced periods of marked hardship, violence and discrimination interspersed with periods of relative quiet, mirroring the ebb and flow of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the domestic political and economic situations. | | | As a result of these events, the Jews of Arab countries in effect became political refugees, that is, persons who had a well-founded fear of persecution and consequently fled untenable, often life-threatening, political situations in their countries of origin. | | | Under fanatical or arbitrary rulers they were severely restricted and discriminated against, and at times of political instability suffered murder and pillaging at the hands of Muslim mobs. |
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