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Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic ( Arabic: اللَّهْجَة الْعَرَبِيَّة الصِّقِلِّيَّة, romanized : al-lahja l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣiqilliyya) is the term used for varieties of Arabic that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily (which included Malta) from the 9th century, persisting under the subsequent Norman rule ...
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism . Arabian polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, was based on veneration of deities and spirits. Worship was directed to various gods and goddesses, including Hubal and ...
Arab identity (Arabic: الهوية العربية) is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab. Like other cultural identities , it relies on a common culture, a traditional lineage, the common land in history, shared experiences including underlying conflicts and confrontations.
Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [ 8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [ 9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries.
Arabic(اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah[alʕaraˈbijːa]ⓘor عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy[ˈʕarabiː]ⓘor [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic languageof the Afroasiatic language familyspoken primarily in the Arab world.[14] The ISOassigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic ...
Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.
The Baggāra ( Arabic: البَقَّارَة, romanized : al baqqāra "heifer herder" [5]) or Chadian Arabs are a nomadic confederation of people of mixed Arab and Arabized indigenous African ancestry, [6] [7] inhabiting a portion of the Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and the Nile river near south Kordofan, numbering over six million. [8]
Pre-Islamic Arabia ( Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام ), [ 1] referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred to in Islam in the context of jahiliyyah ( lit. 'The period of ignorance ' ), highlighting the prevalence of paganism throughout the region at the time.