Actually what unifies Europeans above all is the land, they are all from Europe. However the Arabs are in Asia and Africa.
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I am not sure about that Hadith Hamid, nerver heard it before. Could you please give us more clarifications? i.e Bukhari or Muslim, or what book you got this?
It is a really valid question, back in the days when Arabs were secluded in their peninsuela, there wasn't much of a problem. Most people living their were Arabs, bar the few Jew tribes in Medina and Khaibar. Even the Christians living in the south near Yemen and on the north borders (Ghassasina) were considered Arabs. Even after the Islamic expanions after the prophet's (PBUH) death, there was a clear distincion. There were the Arabs, and the new converts in Egypt, Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, North Africa, and Spain. The important thing to note that being Arabic back in those days was not given much value. Indeed a myriad of the most influential Islamic scholars, scientsts, and figures were non-arabic. Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi who narrated most of the prophet's sayings were all from middle asia and revered by muslims and Arabs up to this day (Narrating the prophet's sayings or Hadeeth is a whole independant science, and very few could master it as whole). Sebaway was Persian, and he was the most important Arabic lingustic through all times. There was a general feeling of brethrenship back then, but as Islam waned, so did the brethrenship. The Arabs took pride in their race, the persians did the same, so did the Eyptians, Morrocans, Sinds...etc. which catalyzed the wanning of the empire. But Arabs were scattered all around the empire, so you could find traces of them almost everywhere. Lots of the Arabic families have family trees tracing them back 100 hundreds of years back, so those are deffinatly are Arabic. But then there are those who speak Arabic, may or may not be Muslims, but consider themselves Arabs and are not begrudged that right, and considered Arabs. But on the other side there are those who speak Arabic, may or may not be Muslims but could trace their roots back to a different race.
Anyways IMO, I would consider any person who speaks Arabic, and takes pride in that being an Arab. Since you can rarely find a 100% pure Arab nowadays. Finally, I wouldn't put much emphasis on Arabism (funny I was just discussing this with Nawaf on MSN).
"O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware" 049.013 AL-Hujjurat (THE PRIVATE APARTMENTS)
It is a really valid question, back in the days when Arabs were secluded in their peninsuela, there wasn't much of a problem. Most people living their were Arabs, bar the few Jew tribes in Medina and Khaibar. Even the Christians living in the south near Yemen and on the north borders (Ghassasina) were considered Arabs. Even after the Islamic expanions after the prophet's (PBUH) death, there was a clear distincion. There were the Arabs, and the new converts in Egypt, Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, North Africa, and Spain. The important thing to note that being Arabic back in those days was not given much value. Indeed a myriad of the most influential Islamic scholars, scientsts, and figures were non-arabic. Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi who narrated most of the prophet's sayings were all from middle asia and revered by muslims and Arabs up to this day (Narrating the prophet's sayings or Hadeeth is a whole independant science, and very few could master it as whole). Sebaway was Persian, and he was the most important Arabic lingustic through all times. There was a general feeling of brethrenship back then, but as Islam waned, so did the brethrenship. The Arabs took pride in their race, the persians did the same, so did the Eyptians, Morrocans, Sinds...etc. which catalyzed the wanning of the empire. But Arabs were scattered all around the empire, so you could find traces of them almost everywhere. Lots of the Arabic families have family trees tracing them back 100 hundreds of years back, so those are deffinatly are Arabic. But then there are those who speak Arabic, may or may not be Muslims, but consider themselves Arabs and are not begrudged that right, and considered Arabs. But on the other side there are those who speak Arabic, may or may not be Muslims but could trace their roots back to a different race.
Anyways IMO, I would consider any person who speaks Arabic, and takes pride in that being an Arab. Since you can rarely find a 100% pure Arab nowadays. Finally, I wouldn't put much emphasis on Arabism (funny I was just discussing this with Nawaf on MSN).
"O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware" 049.013 AL-Hujjurat (THE PRIVATE APARTMENTS)