Arab Muslims

Arab Muslims (Arabic: مسلمون عرب‎) are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Arabs. Arab Muslims greatly outnumber other Ethnoreligious groups in the Middle East including Egypt. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are mistakenly considered Arab-only countries, whereas they also contain Amazigh, natives of those countries. [1] Arab Muslims form the largest ethnic group among Muslims in the world,[2] followed by Bengalis,[3] Punjabis,[4] and Javanese.

Muslim-Arabs are the vast majority in the Middle East and North Africa.

See also

References
  1. Peter Haggett (2001). Encyclopedia of World Geography. 1. Marshall Cavendish. p. 2122. ISBN 0-7614-7289-4.
  2. Margaret Kleffner Nydell Understanding Arabs: A Guide For Modern Times, Intercultural Press, 2005, ISBN 1931930252, page xxiii, 14
  3. roughly 152 million Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh and 36.4 million Bengali Muslims in the Republic of India (CIA Factbook 2014 estimates, numbers subject to rapid population growth); about 10 million Bangladeshis in the Middle East, 1 million Bengalis in Pakistan, 5 million British Bangladeshi.
  4. Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India, Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 1. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0.

Bibliography
  • Ankerl, Guy (2000). Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western. Geneva: INU Press. ISBN 2-88155-004-5.


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