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...
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 ...