Muslims Vs Arabs
Oftentimes, Muslim and Arabs are being stereotyped as belonging to each other’s group. Many believe, to this date, that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims. However, this is not always the case.
Muslims are individuals embracing the religion Islam, hence Muslims are part of a religious sect. Arabs on the other hand are individuals that dwell or own the Arabian or Arab regions. Thus, they form a specific internationally known nationality. They speak the Arabic (Arabian) language and can choose whatever faith or religion they plan to follow. On the other hand, Muslims can have native tongues of almost any language in the world.
Perhaps the reason why the terms Arabs and Muslims get intertwined frequently is the fact that the Arab region is the cradle of religion. It is where most religions had begun to sprout, which includes Christianity and Islam; not to mention Mohammed (Islam’s prophet) to be of Arabian decent. Yet, it must be noted that an Arab citizen can be of any religious order like: Jewish, Islam and Christianity. Hence, this gives birth to Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs. In the same manner, depending on your nationality you can still be a devotee of Islam. You can be called an American Muslim or Arab Muslim, for that instance.
The Arabs live predominantly within the Middle Eastern nations including Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq while the Muslim congregation lives mostly in Asia (about 60%) while the rest are in the Middle East, Africa and other parts in the world.
Lastly, recent world headcount estimates that the Muslim population has grown to as big as 1.5 billion worldwide in 2009 (almost one-fourth of the total population in the world) whereas the Arab people can only sum up to several millions. Thus, it is safe to establish the fact that Muslims are ideally greater in number than the Arabs.
Summary :
1.Muslim is a type of person who accepts the Islamic religion whereas an Arab is a type of ethnicity or nationality.
2.Muslims can use many different languages since they can reside from anywhere around the world while the Arabs primarily use the Arabic language.
3.Arabs usually originate from the Middle East specifically from Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia whereas Muslims can come from almost every corner in the world mainly in Asia.
4.Muslims are practically more in number than the Arab total populace.
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THE FACT THAT YOU SAID ARABS COME FROM IRAN IS SO IGNORANT. IRANIANS ARE PERSIAN AND NOT ARAB….GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE WRITING A BLOG.
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Ifar– It is beyond me how anybody could read plain English yet say that the author refers to Iranians as Arabs. It clearly states that Iraq, not Iran, is Arab.
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Even that is wrong. Iraq was polluted by Arabs as was Iran and Egypt and lots of polluted places. Arabs are nasty ugly and stupid. Average IQ of like 80. Retards.
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You look like an Arab.
You ignorant bas..
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“Arabs are nasty and ugly” i am in loss for words, as and Arab, its just disappointing. Honestly this stupidity and selfishness is not needed. I assume you might not like one Arab, but that does not mean you call all of us Arabs “ugly” and “stupid”. Such selfishness
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I agree with you. Misconception and misjudgments. You don’t just judge the lot cos of the mistakes of the very few
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No this is so wrong
You can’t say that about someone you do not know. Arabians are good people. It’s only a matter of greed from some key people who happen to find themselves being brainwashed probably cos of their current conditions or even past experiences
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HOW MANY YEARS HAS IT BEEN SINCE WE HAVE HAD A COUNTRY NAMED PERSIA?
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https://www.reference.com/geography/country-formerly-known-persia-617a456348dbf7fd
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Ifar: Julita, the author, said “The Arabs live predominantly within the Middle Eastern nations including Syria, Saudi Arabia and IRAQ”
NOT IRAN. LEARN ENGLISH.
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iranians are not arab…..ARABS DO NOT COME FROM IRAN
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proudly yes…..arabs are arabs and they never come from Iran.
Thanks God
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pre-islamic persia: history (p. 325 on my textbook)
post-islamic persia: the present
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People from Iran are Persians and not Arab. Iranians speak Farsi while Arabs speak Arabic
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Your average American is ignorant so they don’t know the difference.
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And you & your mom work for Americans, so shut tfu.
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Wats the difference between Arabs & other Muslims?……….they both believe In the Quran
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All Arabs do not necessarily believe in Qur’an. Arabs who believe in Qur’an are Muslims, they pertain to Islam religion.
Some Arabs are Christians, Druze, and else.
I was born and raised in Arab/Muslim country. I do not believe in Qur’an. I do not believe in Islam.
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Good for you.
Sahtein
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The difference is lots of Arabs are Christians.
Not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs.
Get your facts right before you post anything that you don’t understand. To your ignorance
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What is a Christian? I’m sure a Christian is someone who believes in the Hebrew faith correct? Seeing Jesus Christ was a Hebrew Israelite from the tribe of Judah!!! Meaning he was Ruddy/copper colored correct??? So, are white people in America real Christians??? Because those Christians of the Bible knew Jesus Christ was what modern day times calls black!!! So, so you believe in Jesus Christ that the word of God talks about or a graven or idol god(white man jesus) that man made tradition brought about???
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Isn’t there two versions of the Quran. The first which is probably closer to the truth which is peaceful.. The second rewritten by people to brainwash the masses into holy wars.. horribly violent….. Is your birth name Rajinder Singh.. That is the name of my spiritual teacher..? Don’t know if you personally will receive this message..
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I would like to complement your statement that the Iranians are not Arab and add that neither are the Moroccans/Tunisians / Chadians/Sudanese/ Egyptians/Syrians/ Lebanese or any other country for that matter other than Saudi Arabia and those genetically connected to that people. Many states may speak Arabic just as many states speak English does not make them English (part of England) So yes maybe we all have to go back to our roots and put history back on the right track.
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So does an Arab muslim not practise the same Islam as a Pakistani muslim?
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Hi Cyle! Actually in some cases we could say Arab Muslims practice islam better than us Pakistani Muslims like mostly, we have a bad habit of forgetting those arabic supplications since we are non Arabs while the Muslim Arabs have an advantage as being Arabs because they could easily remember and continue doing their dhikr and recite Holy Qur’an in a more beautiful manner than us Pakistani Muslims. There are many other minor differences too. I hope that you continue your search on this difference topic to learn more deeply about Pakistani and Arab Muslims.
I’m sorry for my bad English. I was a lot tired rn after studying maths for 5hrs continuously. I hope you got my point my friend 🙂
Thanks
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I am in love with a man who is from Jordan …. his language I believe is Arabic ….. I’m confused which launguage to learn cause I love this man and want to honor him by learning can someone e help? I am hurt also because he didn’t notice the effort I made to learn and speak his launguage to him in a personal post to him confused
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The majority of Jordanians speak Arabic. It’s called Levantine arabic like the Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians.
Levantine Arabic is distinctive from other Arabic languages.
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India and Pakistan and the rest of the Muslim world embraces Islam more than the Arabs do.
That’s a fact
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People from Pakistan do not speak Arabic. Their Quo’ran is supposed to be read in Arabic, so I wonder how Pakistani people could read that book.
A Muslim is a follower of Islam. A Muslim is not an Islamic man.
A Muslim is a person who belongs to the Islamic religion.
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Two different cultures
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Algeria was primarily called Numidia. The country was inhabited by Imazigh. They were not Arabs. It is about the 7th century that Numidia was progressively attacked and invaded by Arabs who brought in the crescent, the sword and the Qur’an. Originally, Numidia was polytheist with pacific people.
Same thing with Morocco. In Egypt, the armies of Muhammad invaded and conquered the beautiful egyptian country killing thousands of peaceful people.
Today, in Algeria, lots of Imazigh do not speak Arabic by choice.
Arabs killed Amazigh by the thousand.
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We need more people like you that are knowledgable and know their facts
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Are most Arabs not Muslim,does anyone know percentage? Thanks
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9% of all Muslims are Arabic
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It isnt. Many islamic states or muslim majority countries are non-arab. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, for instance, isnt arab, but they are islamic. Iran, for instance, is a persian country, howewer there are arab minorities- the ahwazi-arabs- living in Iran. M
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No my friend. Arab is a race just like Europeans and Africans. There are Arab atheists,Christians,Jews and Arab Muslims but majority of Arabs are Muslims!
LOL I found this site just today and saw that you put those questions like 2 yrs ago 😀
Thanks
And sorry if I hurted your feelings brother!
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I learned also that Arabs were/are Nomads. Some Arabs can be Atheists. Some Arabs believe in God, such as Christians. Some Arabs are Druze.
Arabs are members of a Semitic people, originally from the Arabian peninsula and neighboring territories, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa – relating to Arabia and the people of Arabia. Arabs refers to those who speak Arabic. Arabs are counted as white. The Arab world, also known as Arab nation or the Arab states represents at least 22 islamic countries.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/blogging_the_bible/features/2007/the_complete_book_of_nehemiah/meet_the_bibles_only_arab_guess_what_he_and_the_jews_think_of_each_other.html
Read more: Difference Between Muslims and Arabs | Difference Between http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-muslims-and-arabs/#ixzz4YEHATYEn
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2 billion Muslims in the world only 12% percent are Arabs.
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I’ve found this page to be very informative, as well as the comments. Thanks.
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Cyle Peters: IDK, but arab atheists DOES exist. How many, Im not aware of, but you find them here and there on the internet.
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Well first,I would like to comment the people who said that this author wrote IRAN acually guys if you read correctly he wrote iran. Second, in Islam, the number of prophets who were Arabs are counted in 1 hand which is 4 not all of the due to many reason.
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Well, I don’t see Iran so I guess the author changed it or something all I see is Iraq
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Very informative. I really got more important information dat i needed.
Thanks guys.
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Can any one clarify to me of which religion was Prophet Mahomed before Islamic religion was born?
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The Arabs are people who used to live in what is now Saudi Arabia. The rest was occupied by various cultures and communities like Asyrian, Coptic, Amazighi… and spoke various languages. The Arabs, with the leadership of Islam and Muhamad, invaded the other lands and forced people to convert to Islam and to use the Arabic language (being the language Mohamad used to write the Quran). Today, we can fairly say that the Arab countries are Islamic countries by forced and oppressions – every Arab country, except for Lebanon, has an Article in its Constitution which says that “Islam is the religion of the country and the main source of legislation is the Islamic Sharia”. This does not mean that the same laws apply on all since the non-Muslim is ahel dhimma (second class citizen) according to the Sharia. He hence does not have the same rights as the rest. The truth is, those who were able to remain non-Muslim, the original people of the land, are economically politically and religiously persecuted – and has always been – and this explains why the multiplicity in what is now the Arab world has disappeared. Of course, books of history and social sciences published by the Arab/Islamic countries misguide their population and enforce amnesia.
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