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really an ethnic group?
i've heard a lot of Arabs say they regard Arab chiefly as a linguistic group identity; ethnically they are Moroccan or Palestinian, Jordanian or Druze, Iraqi or Algerian. I know this is just hearsay, but maybe the contested nature of the label should be elaborated?
128.114.255.141 (
talk) 05:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)reply
In follow-up to
this, I'd suggest trimming the "History" section in particular, transferring any well-sourced content to
History of the Arabs or elsewhere. Not only is it the largest section by far, but most of this history is covered directly by other relevant articles, so an overview article about one ethno-linguistic group doesn't really need to go into all this detail. The sections on "Antiquity" and the paragraphs preceding it are especially in need of
WP:SUMMARYSTYLE.
The "Renaissance" subsection is also inserted awkwardly out of chronological order and has a bit of a POV slant: emphasizing an "Arab" character on the history of the whole Muslim world, even for something like the "
Timurid Renaissance", which is hardly of central relevance here. We could probably move the most relevant points to other subsections and trim some of the more
puffery-ish material. The
Nahda, which is only mentioned in passing, might deserve more attention as part of the "Modern period".
R Prazeres (
talk) 20:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I support trimming the "History" section.
Aintabli (
talk) 03:07, 16 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Missing region with significant population
There is significant amount of the arab diaspora in the Dominican Republic which is not mentioned here. There is an estimate of 1 million descendants of arabs in the Dominican Population, specially coming from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. This must be added as in the map is not even marked. The influence is so high that the current president is arab, the vice president as well as his wife.
2A02:AA10:227E:5380:89F6:AA8:6F1C:158F (
talk) 06:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
You need to provide a reliable source.
Zerotalk 15:01, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm not finding any estimates remotely approaching 1 million.
The World Atlas puts the number at 1% of the population, which, in turn, is about 11 million. The background of the president is irrelevant. Peru has had a Japanese-Peruvian president though only 0.2% of its population is of Japanese ethnicity.
Largoplazo (
talk) 18:41, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Amorites
It is stated that the Amorites "likely originated from Arabia, but as even mentioned on the Amorites Wiki page, the prevailing academic consensus is that the Amorites (actually) most likely originate from central Syria in the mountainous region of Jebel Bishri. This should be mentioned to avoid creating a false impression of the dominant global academic consensus.
2601:587:4302:1620:1A6:8CEB:D70A:D0CC (
talk) 14:59, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Whichever is the case, the language that they spoke doesn't seem to have been close to Arabic...
AnonMoos (
talk) 15:43, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Why Peter Webb's work isn't mentioned ? .
It should be specified in the Pre-Islamic period that the concept of "Arab" as an ethnic identity did not yet exist among the Arabic-speaking populations in the world . Arab shouldn't be confused with "Arabian" .
TheCuratingEditor (
talk) 17:45, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply