Originally Posted by
Nabatea1
The Mesopotamian were concentrated in the North. The Arabized locals were exterminated by the Mongols and the Timurids. Thus by the 15th century it was Bedouin tribes coming from Arabia that would replenish the population in Western and Southern Mesopotamia. The most famous Bedouin tribes such as the Shammar and Rawallah migrated, and took their feuds to the region, well the Al-Muntafaq appeared to be the most powerful tribe and also the largest. Several other tribes would also come and settle in Iraq, and thing from their change. At this time the Shia Persian clergy themselves of Lebanese origin, would try to recruit the Bedouin tribes into the fold of Shiaism, and such movement was quite conductive in the shrine cities, in which Shiaism reigned supreme since the Islamic era. Well those in the West have always rejected Shiaism and Persian influence, and are quite hostile to them, due to the Persian Safavid invasion of the 15th century, and later the Afshars and hence they kept a grudge ever since.
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