The Arabs of Iraq?

[Wild North]

The Iraqi Arabs, as I understand among them there are Sunni and Shia Muslims, but also Iraqi Arab Christians. Correct?

In addition there are also other ethnic and religious groups in Iraq, like Kurds, Assyrians and Yezidis etc.

However are the Christian Iraqi population Arabs originally, or are they arabized non-Arabs?

[aksakallicocuk]

Most of iraqi arabs are arabized non-arabs.

[themrdude1990]

The iraqi arab christians (like myself)
are all descended from Armenia or mostly and have been arabised over time and other christian arab are from either syria or lebnon
and assyrians are iraqi christians but have their own language

[themrdude1990]

and the muslim iraqis are are arabised assyrians who converted to islam long time ago
and ones of turkish and irani descend
and the ones of arabian gulf descend
and few blacks in south who were slaves long time ago

[Wild North]

Bump.

[Profileid]

The Iraqi Arabs, as I understand among them there are Sunni and Shia Muslims, but also Iraqi Arab Christians. Correct?

In addition there are also other ethnic and religious groups in Iraq, like Kurds, Assyrians and Yezidis etc.

However are the Christian Iraqi population Arabs originally, or are they arabized non-Arabs?

Most of the ones north of Baghdad and many south of it are descended from Semites that lived in the area. It's not just the Assyrians that are descended from Assyrians,but many Iraqis as well.

[Anglojew]

Arab is often a linguistic term now rather than always a descendant of Arabians.

[StonyArabia]

Iraqi Arabs are largely of Arabian Bedouin stock. Some Christian Arabs exist but a small minority mostly in the South of Iraq, they are different from the Assyro-Chaldeans, and they claim descent from the Lakhmids. The Lakhmids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhmids. There is small presence in the Western regions as well of true Arab Christians. That said most Iraqi Christians are Assyro-Chaldeans, the Chaldeans especially opted more to Arabization, and some identify as Arab Christian they mostly are from Northern Iraq Nineveh. Iraqi Christians can include Arab, Assyro-Chaldean, and some recent Kurdish converts. Sunni Iraqi Arabs in the North are Arabized, Shia Arabs are mostly Bedouin tribes that got influenced by the Lebanese-Persian clergy hence their adoption Shiaism. The Shrine cities have quite amount of Arabized Persians, well the western regions of Iraq are the Bedouin tribes who never converted to Shiaism and still adhere to that culture. Jordan however has true ethnic Arab Christians being descendants of Bedouins who adopted Christianity nominally under Byzantine rule, such tribes as the Akasheh and Hejazeen who are the largest, with some smaller tribes.

[Sikeliot]

Northern Iraq they are mostly Arabized Mesopotamian. In the south, near Kuwait, they are of actual Arabian descent.

[StonyArabia]

Northern Iraq they are mostly Arabized Mesopotamian. In the south, near Kuwait, they are of actual Arabian descent.

This is seems to be true.

[Wild North]

Bump.

[Wild North]

This is seems to be true.

I thought the dividing line was mainly between Sunnis and Shia in Iraq. But apparently one can divide the population in not just two or three categories, there are also Bedouin Arabs and non-Bedouins, black Iraqis etc..

Btw, Was Saddam Hussein descended from a Bedouin family?

[StonyArabia]

I thought the dividing line was mainly between Sunnis and Shia in Iraq. But apparently one can divide the population in not just two or three categories, there are also Bedouin Arabs and non-Bedouins, black Iraqis etc..

Btw, Was Saddam Hussein descended from a Bedouin family?

Iraqi people are very complex because they belong to several ethnic groups. Bedouin Arabs dominate mostly the Western desert region with strong link to the ethnic Jordanians and Southeast Syrians, they often follow Sunni Islam, with small minority adhering to Christianity near the Jordanian border. The Southern Iraqi Arabs are descendant of Bedouin tribes who have converted to Shiaism in the 19th century, and lost the Bedouin character. There is also the Marsh Arabs who have their own unique culture and practice Shia Islam. There are also small communities of Arab Christians they differ from Assyro-Chaldeans, and are of non-Bedouin origin often claiming Lakhmid descent, and Mandeans who are related to the Assyrians genetically but not religiously. Black Iraqis live mostly in the South and all adhere to Shia Islam. There is also large group of Arabized Persians in Iraq especially in the shrine cities such as Karbala and Najaf.

No he comes from the Al Abu Nasser a small tribe, that's believed might have had a Christian origin. Though he did romanticse the Bedouin character as well the Mesopotamian one, and especially the latter.