The confusion between the two ethnicities seems to arise from their shared religion of Islam. Islam is not a nation, nor is it an ethnic group. It is solely a religion. Much like African Americans and Japanese can be Christian,Persiansand Arabs can be Muslim. Islam has two branches Shia a...
Arabs trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of tribes of Arabia from the Syrian Desert and Arabian Peninsula; Persians are a part of the Iranian inhabitants. Arabs speak Arabic; Persians speak Iranian languages and dialects.
The differences between Alawites and Sunnis in Syria have sharpened dangerously since the beginning of the 2011 uprising against PresidentBashar al-Assad, whose family is Alawite. The reason for the tension is primarily political rather than religious: Top positions in Assad’s army are held by Al...
The authors have provided a comparative analysis between the two groups, namely Persians and Arabs, through which they found some demographic/clinical differences. They attributed the origin of such differences to ethnic distinction of the aforementioned two groups residing at the same region. Herein,...
This article looks into how and why depictions of region, borders, identity and nation change in the writing of Iraqi scholars in the late Ottoman period. Another aim of this article is to critique the notion that divisions between Sunna and Shi'a, Turks and Persians, and Arabs and Kurds ...