Khorasani Arabs

Khorasani Arabs are a group of Arabs who immigrated to Khorasan Province, Iran, during the Abbasid Caliphate (750−1258).

Arabs in Khorasan
عرب‌های خراسان
عرب خراسان
Total population
50,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
South Khorasan
Razavi Khorasan
Languages
Arabic (Khorasani Arabic), Persian
Religion
Shia Islam, Minority Sunni Islam

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]

According to İbn Al-Athir, the Arabic conquerors settled about 50.000 Arabic families in to Iranian Khorasan, modern day Northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan, but the number is definitely exaggerated. [3]

See also

Sources
  1. Persian Wikipedia fa:عرب‌های خراسان
  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)
  • 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
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