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Name Explain The reason why Arabs are in North Africa is because of the Islamic Caliphates. When they came in, The Arabs moved with them and ended up integrating or displacing the Berbers.(The original people of North Africa.)
You’ll probably find that in other countries. But the word “Arab” is embedded in the names of uae or Saudi Arabia. There simply isn’t any simplified names that u can use
+Ahmed Mehmood Too bad there's no way to fix the mistakes that the stupid has-been old European powers made. Borders in the Middle East were drawn with no regard for ethnic groups, and we're still living with the consequences.
Ahmed Mehmood i'm really glad they didn't, that's the only good thing the British empire did in the middle east and north Africa, although the borders could have been better
even if the origin of the word Arab is dweller of the desert (and im no sure of it) that is not the reason north Africa is an Arab region. Arabs are an ethnic group originally from the Arabian peninsula that spoke Arabic, a Semitic language. After the unification of the Arabs under Islam and Muhammad (who unified the Arabian peninsula as one Muslim Caliphate) several caliphates followed that expanded the empire across north Africa to Spain, the Levant, Persia, central Asia and parts of India. with the empire also came the use of the Arab language and the spread of the Semitic Arab ethnicity. so no north Africans are not Arab because they live in the desert, they are Arab cuz they speak Arabic and are (at least in part, there was a large amount of racial mixing) part of the Arab ethnicity. also keep in mind that not all the Muslim world is ethnically Arab, Persians are a different ethnicity with completely different origin, same with the Turks and across north Africa there are also Berber peoples. most migration of ethnically Arabs and colonization (not just political conquest) happened in north Africa and southern Spain.
daniel ospina perez The origin of Arab is not "dweller of the sand" but simply "nomad". And some sources claim that it means "westerner" as Babylonians and Assyrians were the first to mention them. Arabs are an ethnic group made by two minor groups one originated in the peninsula and the other in the Levant. The peninsular Arabs would be Sabaeans and Levantine Arabs would come to be Nabateans. So pretty much Arabs didn't expand to the Levant because they were already in the Levant. Also keep in mind that the Arabic language came into being in the Levant. As peninsular Arabs spoke a close language but not Arabic. So please don't use the Levant as place with no relation to Arabs. The Persian satrap of the first Persian empire named senai and the south and eastern levant "Arabia" and so did the Roman province of Arabia that covered all of what is now Jordan, Southern Syria, east Syria, South Israel, Senai peninsula of Egypt, and north western Saudi Arabia.
CYFHD i said the dweller of the desert thing because the guy from the video said it was the origin of the word. i actually have no idea what the origin of the word is, thanks for explanation btw. and yes i know that Arabs were in the levant before the expansion of the Muslim empire, but peninsular Arabs were the ones that unified Arabs as one political entity. i know that most of the levant was unified by the Umayyads who were from the levant temselves so i can see were there might be disagreement regarding if the expansion of the caliphate over the levant is an actual expantion. what i was refereeing is political unity (since is this fact that is important for arab migration to north africa and spain), not cultural or ethnic relationships. and regarding the origin of arabs im not saying that the levant is not a native arab region, im saying that the arab race and language is, as far i know, peninsular in origin. still is true that the regions were connected and pinpointing a origin place is impossible. distinguishing between Semitic groups is not an easy task.
J D i dont think so ... i agree that the lenguage deal was mainly a political one, after all arab was a lingua franca in the region and empire. but with the race i would not say they are not ethnic arab at all. there was migration and movement of people across the region. its true that the Berber population were and are still there, but there is also a large amount of ethic Arabs and mixed peoples both in the Maghreb and Spain. ive meet Algerians that are clearly not 100% Berber and the same in Spain. i agree that the regions were never and ar not purely arab regions, but denying arab migration to north africa and spain and ethnic mixing seams impossible to me.
daniel ospina perez Oh thanks for explaining. I didn't want to sound hostile i just keep on reading comment after comment by people who think the Quraysh tribe of west central Arabia is the origin of Arabs and is also the homeland of Arabs. As for the origin of the Arabic language, It came from Aramaean and Assyrian and mixed with Sabaean and other South Semitic languages like the language of Jerhum tribe. Mostly Aramaean and Jerhum though. Ancient Arabs spoke Aramiac until Arabic was, you know, a language of it's own.
Yea while name explain is great on etymology he isn't that great at history. Also the rulers of those caliphates were Arabs so technically they were arabic even if they had other ethnicities within their borders.
not really. the caliphate also included central and south asia and persia and northen china and spain and subsaharan africa, all of which are areas who were not arab, and still aren't.
0:42 Actually, the Arabian peninsula is “Shibih Jazirat Al Arab” meaning Arabian peninsula in Arabic. So arabs weren’t wrong this whole time. Arabs -1 Rest of the world - 0
@IBrainedMyDamage (shibah) means semi and can mean similer. Jazera means islanad so the arabic for peninsula is (shibah aljazera) which means semi-island.
Arabia is basically the land of arabs from Morocco to oman but the term is mainly being used with the Arabian peninsula And Somalia isn't an arab country they consider themselves Africans and arabic is only for religion in Somalia
Sudan, Mauritania, and Chad are definitely not "real" Arabs either, but are part of the Arab League, because they fear isolation from their fellow African neighbours.
2:41 "arabha" is not a word in Hebrew. The Hebrew word for desert is מדבר-midbar. You might have meant to say "Arava" (ערבה) which means grassland/savanna and is also the name of a tree that grows in the desert.
The Almighty Sandvich-Nomming Gibusvision Hoovy yeah I also thought so... That's why I added the part about the word Arava, though it still doesn't mean desert.
Shahar Cohen Thanks. Waited for a Hebrew to point it out. But aside from the word itself. "Arabi" Araba" and "Arab" comes from the Assyrian and Babylonian "nomad" "westerner" or am i wrong?
Lion King Nope, Jordan is part of the Arabian peninsuela. And Only a part of Iraq is part of mesopotemia. Southern-Iraq was always a place native to the Arabs. The same goes for southern-Syria.
Naoman Saeed nearly 7/10 of the maghreb population are Hilali arabs that came from Yemen in the early Islamic conquests. source : the history of algeria page 29 . also the arabs didn't force their culture on any other race in the regions that they conquered that's what explains how the Turkic , Persian and some of the berber culture have survived . infact the number of the berber population in that area was already declining for a number of reasons like plagues and past occupations compared to the huge numbers of the Arab fatihin tribes
The name of the UAE can also be translated as "The United Arabian Principalities". Imaaraat (transliterated as "Emirates") is plural of Imaara, which is a region ruled by an "Amiir". Amiir is often translated as "prince" which is not inaccurate given that the origin of "prince" meant something like "leader, commander, ruler, etc".
a couple of things: arab actually comes from the name of the grandfather of all arabs , a man named ya'arub bin qahtan. arab is not actually a pure race of people except maybe in yemen but every other country is extremely mixed since the middle east is literally in the middle of three continents, there are millions of black arabs and millions of white arabs and every shade in between, so the single unifying factor for arabs is language. and that's why we say that morrocans and somalians and even some people in west iran are arabs. it's not islam because we have a lot of non muslims and also turkey and iran are muslims and they're definitely not arab. also , next time color in palestine. even after years of mistreatment they still outnumber the jews in palestine. it's still definitely an arabic country.
Majd Anbar being Arab is a very recent invention, As a matter of fact, a person from Morocco, speaks darija and understands nothing of Egyptian or Iraqi Arabic.
Lion King morrocans definitely understand eastern arabic dialects but its the other way around that isn't always the case. Still I'm from syria and i understand morrocans for the most part. It's both old and not old. Like ancient arabs definitely called themselves arabs but that didn't include like syria or Egypt, modern arab nationalism started in the 40s and 50s and is still overwhelmingly accepted by the arab population, having a similar language can bring a lot of people together.
although there definitely are lots of Arab in the north american and Levantine gene pool, as i said they're very mixed. calling them arab is like calling england "Saxon", like it's not wrong most english people have Saxon blood in them but it's also not accurate since they have other things.
oh lebanese people are 100% percent arabs. more arab than any other people on earth. lol i'm just fucking with you i know how much you hate being called arab😂 in lebanon you can't even legally do a census because then the christians would find out just how much of a minority they are how the fuck did you conduct a genetic test for every lebanese person😂 i lived in lebanon for a while and most of my friends had like a syrian grandfather, it's almost ridiculous how arab you are. culturally, linguistically, religiously you are unmistakebly an arab nation no matter how much you speak english or french or call yourselves phonecians (which as valid as me calling myself babelonian) , you're still good old stinky smelly hairy arabs .
Here: goo.gl/maps/29fvKfbYBwF2 Well, this quarter of Helsinki, Finland is named after the Finnish ceramics manufacturer, which in turn probably adopted the name after the fact that porcelain back then was imported from Arabia(n peninsula).
Just a clarification for Finnish people who are against mass immigration in their home country or Europe who read the comment section, there’s no Arabians in your countries, Arabs are in Arabian peninsula. North African berbers are not Arabs, Iraqis, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, Kurds, Somalis are not Arabs. Arabs rarely emigrate out of Arabia.
At 2:42 you said that the Hebrew word for desert is "arabha", but the actual word is "arava", though most people will translate "desert" to "midbar" "Arabha" sounds like an Arabic word
Yoav Shati Both are Semitic-originating languages, however. And both have heavy influences on each other as they habe neighbored each other for so long.
Hebrew was revived during the early 1900s and its lexicon was based directly on Arabic. So basically most modern Hebrew words are based on Arabic words.
Also all the Arabic Nations shown in the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa (With the exception of Somalia, which I'm not entirely sure is considered Arabic) where all more or less part of the Islamic Caliphates (Sometimes referred to as the Arabian Empires due to being based in the Peninsula), in particular the Umayyad Caliphate encompassed most of them at some stage. This may also be why many of these nations chose to identify as Arabic despite not being located within the Peninsula.
Yes ! they are ethnically Arab cuz this reason. but you have a small mistake, the Omayyad and Abbasid caliphates were not based in the Arabian peninsula. the Rashudun Caliphs (the fists 4 caliphs after Muhammad) were bases in the peninsula, but after the Omayyads came to power they moved the capital to Damascus in Syria and then the Abbasid moved it to Baghdad in Iraq.
lol its not a question if. it IS the reason why its considered arabic. I dont understand why there is not one word about it. within 300 years the arabs conquered all the land from spain to india by jihad
+ Cathal341 I also don't understand why Somalia was included in this video. They do not speak Arabic in that country, they speak Somali. Their language is written with the Latin alphabet. They are also black, and not Semitic-looking like a typical Arab. Other than religion, they have nothing in common with the Arabic countries.
In Turkish we used Emir and Sultan they are Arabic. But we have original Turkish words for them like Atabeg,Bey. Osman Bey when him nation was just a little kingdom. We called him atabeg and only bey. But Seljuks we called sultanate. And Seljuk rulers called Emir and atabeg only. Beyliks used only in Anatolia after Seljuks. In Arabic sources ottomans considered as a sultanate right? We call it Osmanli Beyliği in Turkish.
Correction, Algeria is not exactly an Arabic country, we speak Arabic and French but that doesn't necessarily make us Arabs or French. North African are mostly Amazigh but due to the religion our ties with the Arabs are quite significant. Thanks for the content.
I think that Iraq being considered part of the Arabian Peninsula is just as odd as doing the same for North Africa. Once you reach the Tigris and Euphrates, regardless of who currently lives there, that land is Mesopotamia. Not Arabia.
Gabro Ego By the time the 6th century came around, Arabs inhabited the land along the Euphrates River (Search the Lakhmids) and the Assyrians were only really dominant in Northern Mesopotamia.
To all the somalis claiming they are not arabs, you were never part of the ARAB WORLD, or the ARAB culture, when I think of somalia, I think of a FAILED AFRICAN state, not an ARAB state. For example if something happened in Palestine, or Syria, Yemen, or Lebanon. My heart achs, because they are my people. But for somalia, meh, shit happens. the Arab league was created in 1945 for the benefits of ARAB countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Syria, KSA, and Lebanon, NOT for the benefit of Africa. After lots of BEGGING and lobbying of ARAB state members, somalia joined in 1978, as a NON ARAB state. The only reason it joined the Arab League is because they thought they could cash in free $$$ from Arab oil. It is called THE ARAB LEAGUE, NOT THE ABD LEAGUE. PROUD ARAB.
There could have potentially been an Arabia in our modern world if the British and French didn’t back on their deal after WW1. Makes you wonder what such a country and the entire area could be like today.
It would have been more fucked up than it already is. I'm glad the British and the French backed out, If they didn't it would have been a Saudi Arabia, but worse
Omar Sherif True religion would likely play a large role in the government but don’t many or the countries currently there have a large involvement of religion in their government anyways? Their is also a chance that outside powers would likely try harder to influence this Arabia, thus pushing away from such a religious focus, as military conflict with this larger nation may be more costly (other neighboring nations would be less likely to attack this nation as well). It is hoped that people being unified under one nation would hopefully decrease internal conflicts, but I doubt that would mean everlasting peace though.
@@supernova5293 It would have been ruled by the hashemites who are the modern day rulers of Jordan a country that is not at all worse than saudi arabia and is considered one of the most progressive arab countries.The only reason saudi arabia is the way it is is due to their wahhabist version of islam which many muslim scholars have called a satanic cult.France and britain's Decision to stop backing the hashimites and to divide the middle east without care to ethnicity or culture led to the rise of the wahabbist saudis and the terrorist forces that arose out of the instability vying for power by twisting religion to match their goals.
Before Islam, the term "arab" was used to refer to those who live in open desert ( not in a town) moving from one place to another after rain and grass. Those who lived in town, like Mecca & Madina, referred to those who roam the desert as "arab", which basically means Bedouin/Nomads. After Islam, many new people and nations from out side the Arabian penuncila entered Islam and adopted its main language,Arabic, as amother tongue. After that, the term Arab was no longer used to refer to the Beduin, but to nations whose mother tongue is the Arabic language, and thats why countries like Egypt and Morocco are considered Arab. Also, the early Muslims, who came out of Arabia, migrated to Africa and stayed there thats why there is also a biological link between Arab countries in general. Important note: The grand father of those in the Arabian peninsula came from Iraq (Abraham) and their grand mother (Hagar) came from Egypt.
Ok quick correction, I am an arab and Jordan and Iraq aren't part of the Arabian peninsula instead they are part of the fertile crescent So ya.... your welcome
'arab is derived from the triconsonantal root ' r b ('ayn ra ba). This root is also used in the word 'irab which means grammar. As I know, 'Arab means "one who speaks clearly"
Miskogwan Red Feather Thank you for further information. I did not know ayn-ra-ba meant 'to wander' as well But Turkish word 'araba' has cognates in different Turkish dialects and many of those dialects are not in contact with Arabic and the speakers are not Muslim (for example Sakha which is spoken in Siberia by shamanistic Turkic tribes). Araba is believed to come from the Sanskrit word rátha meaning two wheeled ceremony cart. Thank you again for the information
Al-Dawseri I believe this association came later. The word 'Ajam was used to refer to Persians, predominantly, who couldn't pronounce the Arabic 'ain. This is what I read anyway. Also, Arabs in the past were known as the people of the "dha", because this sound was unique to Arabic.
This is one of the stupidest things I've heard from this channel, that North Africans, from Egypt to Morocco, are called Arabs because they "live in the desert". The vast majority live along the Mediterranean coast and Nile river, not the desert. The vast majority are not Arab people, but have adopted Arabic languages due to historical political reasons. That's why they are called "Arabs". The people who actually live in the desert are the Bedouins in the Arabian peninsula.
Frère, nous sommes tous des Berberes, ou des Berbero-Arabes. C'est ce que j'ai dit. Nous sommes pas un peuple Arabe. L'Arabism, c'est de la conversion par cause politque.
Linguistically, a majority of North Africans speak Arabic languages and dialects, but that's not enough for ethnicity. Otherwise by the same argument, Indians are all ethnically British. Of course, perhaps have a different definition for "ethnicity" that isn't about how people look, who their ancestors were, or their culture. Not even Middle Easterners are ethnically Arab, really. They, and North Africans, were converted to Islam, and one of the principles of Islam is using Arabic language. Also, the Arab empires wouldn't allow people to hold political office unless they claimed to be Arabs, so many nobles either falsified genealogies or married "Arabs" to gain the political advantage of being "racially arab". After many generations of Arabic based government, religion, and trade, Arab became the lingua franca of the region. And "Arab Identity" cemented itself in culture. This accelerated in the modern age with nationalism and politicized arabism. Before, oppression of local languages was a passive affair, but now language suppression became an active affair. Those in power, who hold office because of the lie that they are "Arab" aren't going to let go of power, and can't change their minds. So they reinforce the propaganda. People like Matoub Lounes were assassinated for defending their Berber heritage. You still hear on the news people like the Assyrians and Yazidis getting killed in Syria due to their "ethic difference". But Genetics don't lie. North Africans have strong genetic ties to their Berber ancestors who lived there long before Arabs were ever a group. North Africans also have lots of mixture from Europeans and other Africans, due to exchanges across the Mediterranean and Saharan trade routes, especially slave trading. Spanish people and West Africans have Berber admixture due to the Moorish empires that conquered them, and sent some settlers.
Ali What in the fuck? So philippinos are Europeans because they speak spanish? Where did you get this logic from? It's not because a country has a language as official, that it should be genetically and culturally assimilated to it. In addition to that, morrocans speak french better that arabic, so morrocans are gauls, celts and germanic?
If you remove the Saudis from the throne of Saudi Arabia, it would no oonger be named after them (at least, I don't think it would), so wouldn't that be called "Arabia"? Or would they just name it after the new dynasty?
Kaiser Wilhelm Had the Hashemite dynasty of Hejaz (who currently rule Jordan), as opposed to the Saud dynasty of Nejd United what is today Saudi Arabia, the state would likely have been named the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia. Jordan, the last Hashemite ruled state left, is officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, whilst Iraq when it was under Hashemite rule was the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and Hejaz during their rule was the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz.
Kaiser Wilhelm probably not most saudis today are very nationalistic with their identity as saudis it’s hard to explain but we would never get rid of our monarchy since it’s a symbol of our identity as a people and we refer to ourselves as saudis.. so yeah
M of bourbon The whole idea of it is preposterous though. Eventually as all things the Saud family will die off and culture will change. What happens when the Sauds no longer rule Arabia? Will it become a democratic nation or just throw up a new monarchal dynasty?
Well.. based on the current climate most people here will never likely abandon the title of Saudi since its of nationalist significance I don’t know how to quite explain this it’s like telling the french to stop calling them selfs french ? It’s hard to explain but most probably if the monarchy doesn’t continue it’ll most likely be replaced by another noble tribal dynasty since Arabs to this day still take this stuff very seriously especially saudis but as for the current climate most saudis I know take a huge amount of pride in the monarchy since it’s like a huge part of their national identity.. sorry for my bad grammar / English.
North Africans are considered arabs because of the Arab and Islamic conquest in the 8th century. Unlike south/middle Asian countries who been concerned by the Arab like India and Afghanistan, North African adopted the Arabic language,that's why they're arabs even though the culture could vary significantly between each country.
Lion King Iran itself was concerned by the Arabs in 7th century, they adopted the Arabic alphabet but not the language so they are not Arab. That's my point
Anonymous how ancient do you mean? Because before the Islamic conquest the region was inhabited by Berber , Amazighy and many other peoples. But the Arab influence was too strong and the people adopted the Arabic language. Before the 7th century you couldn't possibly consider them arabs.
@John Phillips lets start with Kuwait, a quick google search of the arabian peninsula shows that kuwait is most definitely a part of that region. As for jordan and iraq big parts of their lands is part of this peninsula its pretty much up to your own opinion if they are part of the peninsula. As for the maghreb and north africa, they have been heavily arabized culturally and linguistically. The berber culture has been and still is vanishing into minorities as fot the berber language there has been a resurgence with many speakers today, lets not get sidetracked this video was about arabia not as in the peninsula but as how he says it the land of the arabs. The maghreb is definitely part of that as seen by the culture and language and people living there
North Africa is Berber as well as Arab. It’s important not to wash away the “Berber”. They should hold a relationship similar to how the right and left eye have equal standing in the skull. 😂
wait wait wait.... you try to explain the northern part of africa as arabic because its close to a desert? no mention of the Muslim conquest that subjugated the entire land from the northwest of spain all the way to the western part of India to their rule? I mean its THE reason why its arabic and you dont even mention it, not even a word. Why?
@@PhoenixFires crazy he'd make a whole "educational" video without knowing that, like they even ruled spain, dude didn't even research before making the video
I think there would be the hashemite kingdom of arabia if the british did their promise to the king of arabs which was Al shareef Hussian who fought against the ottomans and the promise was 1 united arab country,but the brit betrayed him and put straight borders.
Actually the word for desert in hebrew is midbar, but arava is A. willow (tree) B. an area in south israel. Although, the word ma’arav, with the same root as arava means west, so maybe arab used the mean western, or it became that in hebrew for some sort of reason. Also fun fact: the name for the arabian peninsula in hebrew is khatzi ha’i arav meaning the half island of arabia
*The name "Algeria" actually happens to mean "islands" in Arabic; though it absurdly looks like an entire desert landmass was named for a bunch of small habitable islands along the Mediterranean coast!*
Note: 'Arab or possibly its root ( ع-ر-ب) is also used to mean fluent in a language; having a great tongue, this is because of the Pre-Islamic Arabs' poetry is a very detailed one with clear meanings and words describing all kinds of things.
flip twista Iran is not Arab too...but It has a large population of Arabic speakers, so does Turkey and Israel....but Somalia is an official member of the Arab league, even though it Speaks Somali (mostly)
*Iraq and Jordan* are not historically, culturally, or even politically part of the Arabian peninsula; Iraqis have always *seen Kuwait as a southern, Gulf colony* , while the *Jordanians are actually Palestinians ruled by Saudi rejects.* These two countries, like their other northern Arab neighbours, *are part of the Levant* (East Mediterranean) *and Mesopotamia* (centered around the Tigris and Euphrates, where the easternmost of the Arab lands gradually merges into the Iranian world).
There is an equevlint word in arabic for peninsula, and the region is called arabian peninsula in arabic Calling it "an island" stem from the fact that tigris and euphrates rivers stretching along the northren border of the peninsula, giving it a sort of metaphoric discription of th region as an island
To be Honnest It is called شبه الجزيرة العربية that is pronounced Chabh AlJazira AlArabiya and it mean the arab peninsula ... so ... it is called a peninsula not an Islande . But very good video
Edgar Garred look : Al-Jazeera = the Island Chibh =somthing looks that like some other thing Chibh Al-Jazera = the place that looks like an Island => the peninsula I know it is complicated ... but 🤷♂️
0:42 correct, it is called The Arab Island because it is easier! *Jazirat Al-Arab* is shorter than *Shubh Jazirat Al-Arab* which means The Arabian peninsula or literally *Semi-Island of the Arabs* جزيرة العرب = Arab Island شبه جزيرة العرب = The Arabian peninsula
The Worldconquer most of the Syrian population is in the Levant (west Syria) but yes Badia (Southeast Syria) is almost half of Syria and it is basically part of the Arabian peninsula.
Another fact all the Arab comes originally from YEMEN and we all sons of ADNAN and KAHATAN and mostly from YAARUB IBN KAHATAN and the Arab who speaks authentic language with no mistake and it's called iearab
Syria (along with Lebanon), Iraq, and Jordan (along with Palestine) are collectively all "northern Arabs" who are part of the Levant (East Mediterranean) and Mesopotamia, and not part of the Arabian peninsula.
While it's natural to have ancestral influence from your neighbour, Lebanese and Syrians are mostly not ethnically Arab. Same way that the Gulf Arabs may have Levantine influenced ancestry, but are mostly non-Levantine. The truth of the matter is that there's no single monolithic Arab culture spanning the entire MENA region. Just a gradient of similarity from Morocco to Oman, with Arabic as the official written language.
I am a Hebrew speaker and there are many words for desert thr main one is *midbar* but thereare no wards who are close to what you hace said in the video The Hebrew wards are : midbar מדבר , yeshimon ישימון and Tzina. צינה.
Arab means eloquent...Arabs have had a strong oral tradition of poetry...Arab Ibn Qahtan is the mythological father of the Arab race ...his name translate the eloquent son of the desert....Arabs add 'IA' at the end of the words as suffix of language or when they say the country of...'Ad-dawla Al Arabia' the country of Arabia' ...Arabs of North Africa are there due to the Arabian empires
The United Arab Emirates has one of the best political systems in the world. Basically each emir is effectively a king of his own local region and their president is the chief king. Could say more but then who would read it?
There’s an inaccuracy here, we call the Arabian peninsula “شبه الجزيرة العربية" which translates to “the Arabian peninsula” or transliteraly as “ the arabian semi-island”; either way this name is rarely used, the name more commonly used is “الخليج العربي" which translates to “the Arabian gulf” (oh yea, we don’t call it the “Persian gulf” in the arab world we call it “the Arabian gulf”)
You call it A*abian gulf because of bathism or pan-arabism movements in 60s, it's internationally recognized as "Persian Gulf", even your kings before 60s they called it "al khalij al farsi" (Persian Gulf).
EvilLordminion777 My comment got deleted (oh wow what a surprise for critizing Islam), but you know damn well as I do what islam says about kafir. Killing kafir is not a sin, and martyrdom cleans all sins
2:05 - North Africa had migrating Arabs arriving, and they adapted to life there for hundreds of years, and NOrth Africa is now heavily Arabic culturally and religiously.
58:00 I’m an Arabian Saudi (don’t mind my username) it’s actually called Arabian peninsula (Shebh al jazyirah Al Arabyia) or the peninsula of Arabs in English but we use Al Jazirat Al Arabs (Arabs Island) as shortcut.
For 4500 years ago the arabs from yemen rule all middle east and NORTH africa the tribes of yemen was spred into syria palestine iraq in the NORTH of arabia then the tribe rule NORTH africa to many think arabs come when islam comes but this its wrong the arabs was there long before islam you can Google IT the the tribes of qahtan and the tribes of adnan and the tribes of ghassanid and you will understand the full history of arab country
sheyma mysam habibti you most be proud becouse the yemenis are prophet Noah children and from Noah the arabs comes to this world sam or sem are son of Noah and all semetic comes from sam or sem like the arab and the jew
Actually it's not called Jazirat Al-Arab, it's called Shibeh Jazirat Al-Arab which means Penninsula or "The likeness of an island" on Arabic so the Arabic version is right and accurate as is the English one.
Jaziira means a piece of land mostly or completely surrounded by water and is also used to reference Mesopotamia in Arabic. Its principle use is in islands in MSA and other modern dialects, but the classical definition isn't wrong, it's just shifted from its modern sense.
I’ve always wondered about this question… but the Hebrew word for desert is midbar מדבר (which has the root meaning “to talk” and I have no idea how that happened). With that tho, the Biblical word was arava ערבה. Nowadays, though, the words with that root (ערב) have to do with the evening and the west (and Arabic). The word erev ערב (evening) dates back to Biblical Hebrew. I’ve always found it interesting how that root could refer to people who originated east of Israel, and how the term mizrakhi מזרחי (literally “eastern”) refers to Jews from the same areas.
Hey there name explainers ans patrick I have a tiny question or a video proposal, why new delhi is called like that is ther an old dehli and if so where is it ,
Interesting video! Just a pointer in Arabic we don’t call the peninsula an island we call it “shibh al jazerra” (شبه الجزيرة) which is a direct translation for the word peninsula.
hamdoon666 i’m speaking from a geographical point of view, as it seems in this context he also was speaking from a geological perspective, even comparing peninsulas to islands whereby in arabic geography we too perceive “arabia” as a peninsula
Hey mate! I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I am an Israeli and Hebrew is my mother tongue and I have to make a small correction, Arava in Hebrew is somewhat of a Savannah and not a dessert. Arabs in Hebrew are Aravim (the suffix "im" plurulizes) and Arabia is Arav.
Man, Saydi Arabia is only called "Saudi" because that's the name of the royal family. If the royal family were called something else, we'd call it something else arabia. Saudi isn't part of the actual country's name, which is in fact Arabia. Also, Somalia isn't an Arabic country.
The definition for arab country used here is being a member of the arab league something that many of the countries in aren't really arab(for example egyptians have their own dialect,culture,traditions and ethnicity)Saudi Arabia technically just means the saudi's region of arabia
Well, I guess the North African countries refer to themselves as Arabs because they all speak Arabic, even though the dialects vary. They all predominantly speak Arabic today because of the expansion of the early Arab Rashidun, Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates that eventually over time assimilated the inhabiatans of those lands into Arabic culture, with the previous languages mostly being replaced by Arabic, since it was the language of prestige and society. Since language is such an important part of identity, it can be used to explain why certain groups refer and percieve themselves to belong to a certain group, i.e north africans and the fertile crescent inhabitants seeing themselves as Arabs, when previously they were Assyrian, Coptic Egyptian, Berber etc etc. Some of these older semitic identities have survived in Christian minorities, such as the Chaldeans in Iraq, Assyrians in Syria, Copts in Egypt, as well as Muslim Berbers still speaking Berber languages like Amazigh. For me, Arabia is the Arabian peninsular, and the other Arabic speaking countries are Arabic countries, but I prefer to see them grouped in differrent regions, such as; the Levant, Maghreb etc.
John Phillips Hey, thanks for engaging in the discussion. I also said that they have been assimilated into Arabic culture and Arabic has been predominant for the best part of a millennia. My main point of this topic surrounds the term 'Arabia.' I see that term as referring only to the peninsular, even though the Arabic world has expanded much since the 7th century, since I see the peninsular as the 'original' (I use that term very loosely) homeland of the early Arabs, prior to their expansion against the Romans and Persians. I suppose a parallel could be Britain and how even though Anglo-Saxon culture has expanded as a result of the Colonial age to form new countries; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S, we don't collectively refer to all of these lands as 'Brittania,' despite the fact that we share a language, common history, culture and religion.
@John Phillips Egyptians, mesopotamians, Berbers, Arabs and levantians(not sure of the spelling) have never been ethnically the same, the Arab-islamic conquest and cross breeding between them may have left Arab DNA in their gene pool but they are mostly the same as they were before, and every nation has a unique culture although they are similar in many ways because of religion
You didn't really explain why are the North African countries considered to be Arab countries. Well for one these countries (or at least many of them) have a majority of Arabic speakers. I'm not terribly familiar with the history but I'd venture to guess that the language (and maybe some other cultural features as well) were brought by Arab conquerors. That's at least the case for Egypt.
Aladdin is originally an Indian folk tale which was brought to Persia by Khosrow Anushirvan of the Sassanids and then from middle-Persian to Arabic in the 8th century.
We also call the Arabian Peninsula in Arabic "شبه الجزيرة العربية" (Shibhul Jariza Al-Arabiya) which literally means "Arabian Peninsula" . Yes, the name you said is widely used, but this one is also used
Actually in Arabic it’s know as ‘ الخليج العربي‘ or the Arabian gulf. I’ve lived in the uae for 11 years, and Arabic is my mother tounge, I would know. And emir أمير is also the word for prince Fun fact: Islam is derived from the Arabic word for peace
Emirates in arabic is the plural of emara which literally means the small state , when the Uae established there was a suggestion to include both bahrain and qatar pointing at those two as 2 emirates + the 7 UAEmirates.
*JUST.GET.TO.THE.POINT.* There's no need for explaining why North Africa is part of the Arab world even though it's not in the Arabian Peninsula... There's no need to ask yourself questions if you're anyway not going to answer them.
Actually, Morocco isn't considered an Arab country...their naibours to the east, Algeria is an Arab country. I don't understand why it is so, but I do know it's a very important distinction for the Moroccan people, that they are distinct from the rest of the arab world.
What you say I know to be true...that what I was told by people of Moroccan decent...I always thought Morocco was an Arab country, but when I said so to a person of Moroccan decent he got angry and said that Moroccans are Maghreb and not Arab at all.
Hey all, hope you aren't getting too riled up with all my hyping about the big announcment, just don't forget to keep an eye open for a video this Saturday!
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Name Explain The reason why Arabs are in North Africa is because of the Islamic Caliphates. When they came in, The Arabs moved with them and ended up integrating or displacing the Berbers.(The original people of North Africa.)
Name explain you included Qatar as part of SA at 0:19
Explain Jesus
midbar. in hebrew desert is midbar.
and if you read it out loud, you probably pronounce the r wrong.
Many other countries have the word "Arab" in their name, not just Saudi and the UAE. For example: "Arab Republic of Egypt" and "Syrian Arab Republic"
Also fun fact: for a few years, Egypt and Syria were one country called the United Arab Republic
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I found the video a bit superficial as he didn't mention this about Egypt and Syria
In south of yemen there was "The South Arabian Republic" up untill the early 90's
You’ll probably find that in other countries. But the word “Arab” is embedded in the names of uae or Saudi Arabia. There simply isn’t any simplified names that u can use
Their could have been One whole country called Arabia but the British turned on the those who where looking to establish it in WW1.
Ahmed Mehmood don't forget the French
+Ahmed Mehmood Too bad there's no way to fix the mistakes that the stupid has-been old European powers made. Borders in the Middle East were drawn with no regard for ethnic groups, and we're still living with the consequences.
true , arabian identity was destroyed by europeans , most wars today are result of that .
Ahmed Mehmood i'm really glad they didn't, that's the only good thing the British empire did in the middle east and north Africa, although the borders could have been better
Ahmed Mehmood indeed, a more progressive unified state would exist(not the Saudis)
even if the origin of the word Arab is dweller of the desert (and im no sure of it) that is not the reason north Africa is an Arab region. Arabs are an ethnic group originally from the Arabian peninsula that spoke Arabic, a Semitic language. After the unification of the Arabs under Islam and Muhammad (who unified the Arabian peninsula as one Muslim Caliphate) several caliphates followed that expanded the empire across north Africa to Spain, the Levant, Persia, central Asia and parts of India. with the empire also came the use of the Arab language and the spread of the Semitic Arab ethnicity. so no north Africans are not Arab because they live in the desert, they are Arab cuz they speak Arabic and are (at least in part, there was a large amount of racial mixing) part of the Arab ethnicity. also keep in mind that not all the Muslim world is ethnically Arab, Persians are a different ethnicity with completely different origin, same with the Turks and across north Africa there are also Berber peoples. most migration of ethnically Arabs and colonization (not just political conquest) happened in north Africa and southern Spain.
daniel ospina perez
The arabs unified after the death of the prophet Mohammed
daniel ospina perez The origin of Arab is not "dweller of the sand" but simply "nomad". And some sources claim that it means "westerner" as Babylonians and Assyrians were the first to mention them.
Arabs are an ethnic group made by two minor groups one originated in the peninsula and the other in the Levant. The peninsular Arabs would be Sabaeans and Levantine Arabs would come to be Nabateans.
So pretty much Arabs didn't expand to the Levant because they were already in the Levant.
Also keep in mind that the Arabic language came into being in the Levant. As peninsular Arabs spoke a close language but not Arabic.
So please don't use the Levant as place with no relation to Arabs.
The Persian satrap of the first Persian empire named senai and the south and eastern levant "Arabia" and so did the Roman province of Arabia that covered all of what is now Jordan, Southern Syria, east Syria, South Israel, Senai peninsula of Egypt, and north western Saudi Arabia.
CYFHD i said the dweller of the desert thing because the guy from the video said it was the origin of the word. i actually have no idea what the origin of the word is, thanks for explanation btw. and yes i know that Arabs were in the levant before the expansion of the Muslim empire, but peninsular Arabs were the ones that unified Arabs as one political entity. i know that most of the levant was unified by the Umayyads who were from the levant temselves so i can see were there might be disagreement regarding if the expansion of the caliphate over the levant is an actual expantion. what i was refereeing is political unity (since is this fact that is important for arab migration to north africa and spain), not cultural or ethnic relationships. and regarding the origin of arabs im not saying that the levant is not a native arab region, im saying that the arab race and language is, as far i know, peninsular in origin. still is true that the regions were connected and pinpointing a origin place is impossible. distinguishing between Semitic groups is not an easy task.
J D i dont think so ... i agree that the lenguage deal was mainly a political one, after all arab was a lingua franca in the region and empire. but with the race i would not say they are not ethnic arab at all. there was migration and movement of people across the region. its true that the Berber population were and are still there, but there is also a large amount of ethic Arabs and mixed peoples both in the Maghreb and Spain. ive meet Algerians that are clearly not 100% Berber and the same in Spain. i agree that the regions were never and ar not purely arab regions, but denying arab migration to north africa and spain and ethnic mixing seams impossible to me.
daniel ospina perez Oh thanks for explaining. I didn't want to sound hostile i just keep on reading comment after comment by people who think the Quraysh tribe of west central Arabia is the origin of Arabs and is also the homeland of Arabs.
As for the origin of the Arabic language, It came from Aramaean and Assyrian and mixed with Sabaean and other South Semitic languages like the language of Jerhum tribe. Mostly Aramaean and Jerhum though. Ancient Arabs spoke Aramiac until Arabic was, you know, a language of it's own.
There were united Arab states: the Rashidun, Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates
Vin Facts they weren't Arab only
And THEY are why there are Arab states in Africa.
Yea while name explain is great on etymology he isn't that great at history. Also the rulers of those caliphates were Arabs so technically they were arabic even if they had other ethnicities within their borders.
not really. the caliphate also included central and south asia and persia and northen china and spain and subsaharan africa, all of which are areas who were not arab, and still aren't.
Well, Iraq and Syria, an Arab state, still has Kurdistan which is Kurdish.
0:42 Actually, the Arabian peninsula is “Shibih Jazirat Al Arab” meaning Arabian peninsula in Arabic. So arabs weren’t wrong this whole time.
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@IBrainedMyDamage
likeness
شبه الجزيره = likeness island
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@IBrainedMyDamage (shibah) means semi and can mean similer.
Jazera means islanad so the arabic for peninsula is (shibah aljazera) which means semi-island.
Not really
Arabia is basically the land of arabs from Morocco to oman but the term is mainly being used with the Arabian peninsula
And Somalia isn't an arab country they consider themselves Africans and arabic is only for religion in Somalia
Sudan, Mauritania, and Chad are definitely not "real" Arabs either, but are part of the Arab League, because they fear isolation from their fellow African neighbours.
Le Huy-Anh They are not actual Arabs, but they are certainly Arabized.
Elias Frahat maroco people are no arabs
Miskogwan Red Feather Dude being Arab isn't a blood thing anymore, if you identify as an Arab, you're an Arab.
algria and moroco are berbers
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More Often Then Not Are Hotter Then Hot. In A Lot Of Good Of Ways!!!!
"Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face"
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Arabian nights
Like Arabian dreams
This mystical land of magic and sand
Is more than it seems
2:41 "arabha" is not a word in Hebrew. The Hebrew word for desert is מדבר-midbar.
You might have meant to say "Arava" (ערבה) which means grassland/savanna and is also the name of a tree that grows in the desert.
Shahar Cohen if I'm not wrong, you can transcribe "v" as "bh".
The Almighty Sandvich-Nomming Gibusvision Hoovy yeah I also thought so... That's why I added the part about the word Arava, though it still doesn't mean desert.
Shahar Cohen if I’m not wrong i don’t understand a single word in Hebrew, so Idk why I’m even writing anything here
OY VEY ITS ANUDDA SHOAH
said the jew as he took my wallet away
Shahar Cohen Thanks. Waited for a Hebrew to point it out. But aside from the word itself. "Arabi" Araba" and "Arab" comes from the Assyrian and Babylonian "nomad" "westerner" or am i wrong?
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Iraq is a part of Mesopotamia and Jordan is a part of the Levant!
Mesopotamia IS the old name for Iraq
Jordan is an Arab State
Also, your wrong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world
shut up
Both r also part of the peninsula a bit little but thy r...
Lion King
Nope, Jordan is part of the Arabian peninsuela. And Only a part of Iraq is part of mesopotemia. Southern-Iraq was always a place native to the Arabs. The same goes for southern-Syria.
Lion King Iraq is from the Arabian peninsula and 80% of Jordan's territory is from the Arabian peninsula.
Why are North African nations Arab you ask?
It's because the Arabs settled North Africa waaaaaayyyy back during the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates.
Correction. They conquered the place and forced their language and culture onto the locals.
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Naoman Saeed nearly 7/10 of the maghreb population are Hilali arabs that came from Yemen in the early Islamic conquests. source : the history of algeria page 29 . also the arabs didn't force their culture on any other race in the regions that they conquered that's what explains how the Turkic , Persian and some of the berber culture have survived . infact the number of the berber population in that area was already declining for a number of reasons like plagues and past occupations compared to the huge numbers of the Arab fatihin tribes
Blitzgang Gaming yes thx
Naoman Saeed correction: they didn't force, they settled, and I would expect you to say that as someone with an edgy pfp
The name of the UAE can also be translated as "The United Arabian Principalities". Imaaraat (transliterated as "Emirates") is plural of Imaara, which is a region ruled by an "Amiir". Amiir is often translated as "prince" which is not inaccurate given that the origin of "prince" meant something like "leader, commander, ruler, etc".
a couple of things:
arab actually comes from the name of the grandfather of all arabs , a man named ya'arub bin qahtan.
arab is not actually a pure race of people except maybe in yemen but every other country is extremely mixed since the middle east is literally in the middle of three continents, there are millions of black arabs and millions of white arabs and every shade in between, so the single unifying factor for arabs is language. and that's why we say that morrocans and somalians and even some people in west iran are arabs. it's not islam because we have a lot of non muslims and also turkey and iran are muslims and they're definitely not arab.
also , next time color in palestine. even after years of mistreatment they still outnumber the jews in palestine. it's still definitely an arabic country.
Majd Anbar
being Arab is a very recent invention, As a matter of fact, a person from Morocco, speaks darija and understands nothing of Egyptian or Iraqi Arabic.
Arab itself as a catch all term for the middle east and north africa is fairly recent but being Arab is not
Lion King morrocans definitely understand eastern arabic dialects but its the other way around that isn't always the case. Still I'm from syria and i understand morrocans for the most part.
It's both old and not old. Like ancient arabs definitely called themselves arabs but that didn't include like syria or Egypt, modern arab nationalism started in the 40s and 50s and is still overwhelmingly accepted by the arab population, having a similar language can bring a lot of people together.
although there definitely are lots of Arab in the north american and Levantine gene pool, as i said they're very mixed. calling them arab is like calling england "Saxon", like it's not wrong most english people have Saxon blood in them but it's also not accurate since they have other things.
oh lebanese people are 100% percent arabs. more arab than any other people on earth.
lol i'm just fucking with you i know how much you hate being called arab😂 in lebanon you can't even legally do a census because then the christians would find out just how much of a minority they are how the fuck did you conduct a genetic test for every lebanese person😂 i lived in lebanon for a while and most of my friends had like a syrian grandfather, it's almost ridiculous how arab you are. culturally, linguistically, religiously you are unmistakebly an arab nation no matter how much you speak english or french or call yourselves phonecians (which as valid as me calling myself babelonian) , you're still good old stinky smelly hairy arabs .
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Jordan and Iraq are not considered from the peninsula
Most of Iraq and Jordan belong to Arabia, go learn the borders of Arabia
@@marxlarx396 most of them weren't in jazira
There's a district in Helsinki, Finland called "Arabia"
Here: goo.gl/maps/29fvKfbYBwF2
Well, this quarter of Helsinki, Finland is named after the Finnish ceramics manufacturer, which in turn probably adopted the name after the fact that porcelain back then was imported from Arabia(n peninsula).
in Iran there is arabistan
in turkey there is diyarbaker(arabic name mean baker's home)
Just a clarification for Finnish people who are against mass immigration in their home country or Europe who read the comment section, there’s no Arabians in your countries, Arabs are in Arabian peninsula. North African berbers are not Arabs, Iraqis, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, Kurds, Somalis are not Arabs. Arabs rarely emigrate out of Arabia.
No one gives a fuck
John Phillips too much HOI4, too much.
IRAQ is not apart of Arabia, It's apart of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia
Babylon was way better than arabia
The south part of iraq is a part of Arabia
We should claim the Arabian parts of Iraq then, because as you said fertile crescent, so Iraq are occupation state
At 2:42 you said that the Hebrew word for desert is "arabha", but the actual word is "arava", though most people will translate "desert" to "midbar"
"Arabha" sounds like an Arabic word
Yoav Shati Both are Semitic-originating languages, however. And both have heavy influences on each other as they habe neighbored each other for so long.
Hebrew was revived during the early 1900s and its lexicon was based directly on Arabic. So basically most modern Hebrew words are based on Arabic words.
PhoenixFires They weren't JUST next to each other for so long. But according to the bible they were next to each other since their existence!
Also all the Arabic Nations shown in the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa (With the exception of Somalia, which I'm not entirely sure is considered Arabic) where all more or less part of the Islamic Caliphates (Sometimes referred to as the Arabian Empires due to being based in the Peninsula), in particular the Umayyad Caliphate encompassed most of them at some stage. This may also be why many of these nations chose to identify as Arabic despite not being located within the Peninsula.
Yes ! they are ethnically Arab cuz this reason. but you have a small mistake, the Omayyad and Abbasid caliphates were not based in the Arabian peninsula. the Rashudun Caliphs (the fists 4 caliphs after Muhammad) were bases in the peninsula, but after the Omayyads came to power they moved the capital to Damascus in Syria and then the Abbasid moved it to Baghdad in Iraq.
daniel ospina perez Very true. I was only thinking about the first 4 when I wrote this.
lol its not a question if. it IS the reason why its considered arabic. I dont understand why there is not one word about it. within 300 years the arabs conquered all the land from spain to india by jihad
+ Cathal341 I also don't understand why Somalia was included in this video. They do not speak Arabic in that country, they speak Somali. Their language is written with the Latin alphabet. They are also black, and not Semitic-looking like a typical Arab. Other than religion, they have nothing in common with the Arabic countries.
Cathal341 or maybe they consider themselves Arabs just because they are ethnically Arabs?
Em... Desert in Hebrew isn't "Arabha". It's "Midbar". There is no Word in Hebrew such as "Arabha".
Skrooge Lantay arava doesn’t mean desert at all it means willow
The word should be written in english as 'a'rava'.
He just said the word A'rava very very wrong
Who cares about the invented hebrew language , or the opinion of the fake Semites .
@@canaannoah4712 Fake Semites?
Emir mean Prince
Elias Frahat no, it is the ismu' l-Faa'il of “to command“, so an Amir is someone who commands
In Turkish we used Emir and Sultan they are Arabic. But we have original Turkish words for them like Atabeg,Bey. Osman Bey when him nation was just a little kingdom. We called him atabeg and only bey. But Seljuks we called sultanate. And Seljuk rulers called Emir and atabeg only. Beyliks used only in Anatolia after Seljuks. In Arabic sources ottomans considered as a sultanate right? We call it Osmanli Beyliği in Turkish.
Norast Yes nice to meet you here :)
Elias Frahat I am happy to see you too, I see you everywhere but not commenting under your comments. Ehuehuehue
Miskogwan Red Feather They’re two different words.One is pronounced Ameer,the other is pronounced Aamer.
Correction, Algeria is not exactly an Arabic country, we speak Arabic and French but that doesn't necessarily make us Arabs or French.
North African are mostly Amazigh but due to the religion our ties with the Arabs are quite significant.
Thanks for the content.
I think that Iraq being considered part of the Arabian Peninsula is just as odd as doing the same for North Africa. Once you reach the Tigris and Euphrates, regardless of who currently lives there, that land is Mesopotamia. Not Arabia.
Turtles Much of Iraq was Arab even before Islam
Ahmad Alenezi
he is talking about Geography
Gabro Ego By the time the 6th century came around, Arabs inhabited the land along the Euphrates River (Search the Lakhmids) and the Assyrians were only really dominant in Northern Mesopotamia.
the western part of Iraq, is part of the Arabian Peninsula, the rest is mesopetamia, the north is original Assyrian lands
Argad Argad Arab cities such as Hira are on the Euphrates, so no, not all of Mesopotamia was Assyrian.
To all the somalis claiming they are not arabs, you were never part of the ARAB WORLD, or the ARAB culture, when I think of somalia, I think of a FAILED AFRICAN state, not an ARAB state.
For example if something happened in Palestine, or Syria, Yemen, or Lebanon. My heart achs, because they are my people. But for somalia, meh, shit happens.
the Arab league was created in 1945 for the benefits of ARAB countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Syria, KSA, and Lebanon, NOT for the benefit of Africa.
After lots of BEGGING and lobbying of ARAB state members, somalia joined in 1978, as a NON ARAB state.
The only reason it joined the Arab League is because they thought they could cash in free $$$ from Arab oil.
It is called THE ARAB LEAGUE, NOT THE ABD LEAGUE.
PROUD ARAB.
😂😂dude you roasted us. why why
They are black arabs lol
There is a giant mistake
It's called " shubeh Jazeera al-Arab "
"The peninsula of the Arabs"
Not the " island".
There could have potentially been an Arabia in our modern world if the British and French didn’t back on their deal after WW1.
Makes you wonder what such a country and the entire area could be like today.
It would have been more fucked up than it already is. I'm glad the British and the French backed out, If they didn't it would have been a Saudi Arabia, but worse
Omar Sherif Interesting opinion, can you elaborate as to why it would be like that
@@bobbyferg9173 Because it would have most likely been religion based
Omar Sherif True religion would likely play a large role in the government but don’t many or the countries currently there have a large involvement of religion in their government anyways? Their is also a chance that outside powers would likely try harder to influence this Arabia, thus pushing away from such a religious focus, as military conflict with this larger nation may be more costly (other neighboring nations would be less likely to attack this nation as well).
It is hoped that people being unified under one nation would hopefully decrease internal conflicts, but I doubt that would mean everlasting peace though.
@@supernova5293 It would have been ruled by the hashemites who are the modern day rulers of Jordan a country that is not at all worse than saudi arabia and is considered one of the most progressive arab countries.The only reason saudi arabia is the way it is is due to their wahhabist version of islam which many muslim scholars have called a satanic cult.France and britain's Decision to stop backing the hashimites and to divide the middle east without care to ethnicity or culture led to the rise of the wahabbist saudis and the terrorist forces that arose out of the instability vying for power by twisting religion to match their goals.
Before Islam, the term "arab" was used to refer to those who live in open desert ( not in a town) moving from one place to another after rain and grass. Those who lived in town, like Mecca & Madina, referred to those who roam the desert as "arab", which basically means Bedouin/Nomads.
After Islam, many new people and nations from out side the Arabian penuncila entered Islam and adopted its main language,Arabic, as amother tongue. After that, the term Arab was no longer used to refer to the Beduin, but to nations whose mother tongue is the Arabic language, and thats why countries like Egypt and Morocco are considered Arab.
Also, the early Muslims, who came out of Arabia, migrated to Africa and stayed there thats why there is also a biological link between Arab countries in general.
Important note: The grand father of those in the Arabian peninsula came from Iraq (Abraham) and their grand mother (Hagar) came from Egypt.
Egypt and Syria used to be united in the United Arab Republic. Egypt kept that name for a while even after the union was dissolved.
Ok quick correction, I am an arab and Jordan and Iraq aren't part of the Arabian peninsula instead they are part of the fertile crescent
So ya.... your welcome
Private Sauce
اتوقع جنوب العراق وجنوب الاردن من شبه الجزيرة العربية
Jordan isn't part of the fertile cresent, Iraq and Syria are the fertile cresent
Private Sauce south Iraq and south and eastern parts o Jordan are considered a part if the peninsula
'arab is derived from the triconsonantal root ' r b ('ayn ra ba). This root is also used in the word 'irab which means grammar. As I know, 'Arab means "one who speaks clearly"
Batuhan Ayberk KOÇAK that is aldo true, but firstly it means “to move around“. You know the turkish word araba for car. It derives from thst
Miskogwan Red Feather Thank you for further information. I did not know ayn-ra-ba meant 'to wander' as well
But Turkish word 'araba' has cognates in different Turkish dialects and many of those dialects are not in contact with Arabic and the speakers are not Muslim (for example Sakha which is spoken in Siberia by shamanistic Turkic tribes). Araba is believed to come from the Sanskrit word rátha meaning two wheeled ceremony cart.
Thank you again for the information
Al-Jumaeyli Al-Qaysi Al-Dawseri الدوسر Acem (pronounced ah-jam) means Persian in Turkish
Al-Jumaeyli Al-Qaysi Al-Dawseri الدوسر it has both meanings. Arabic is rich of meaning
Al-Dawseri I believe this association came later. The word 'Ajam was used to refer to Persians, predominantly, who couldn't pronounce the Arabic 'ain. This is what I read anyway. Also, Arabs in the past were known as the people of the "dha", because this sound was unique to Arabic.
This is one of the stupidest things I've heard from this channel, that North Africans, from Egypt to Morocco, are called Arabs because they "live in the desert".
The vast majority live along the Mediterranean coast and Nile river, not the desert.
The vast majority are not Arab people, but have adopted Arabic languages due to historical political reasons.
That's why they are called "Arabs".
The people who actually live in the desert are the Bedouins in the Arabian peninsula.
moroccon , algerians are berbers . only arabs are aravs in arab peninsula .
Well am moroccan and am not arab so stop the lies we are berbers and thars a fact
Frère, nous sommes tous des Berberes, ou des Berbero-Arabes. C'est ce que j'ai dit. Nous sommes pas un peuple Arabe. L'Arabism, c'est de la conversion par cause politque.
Linguistically, a majority of North Africans speak Arabic languages and dialects, but that's not enough for ethnicity. Otherwise by the same argument, Indians are all ethnically British.
Of course, perhaps have a different definition for "ethnicity" that isn't about how people look, who their ancestors were, or their culture.
Not even Middle Easterners are ethnically Arab, really. They, and North Africans, were converted to Islam, and one of the principles of Islam is using Arabic language. Also, the Arab empires wouldn't allow people to hold political office unless they claimed to be Arabs, so many nobles either falsified genealogies or married "Arabs" to gain the political advantage of being "racially arab". After many generations of Arabic based government, religion, and trade, Arab became the lingua franca of the region. And "Arab Identity" cemented itself in culture.
This accelerated in the modern age with nationalism and politicized arabism. Before, oppression of local languages was a passive affair, but now language suppression became an active affair.
Those in power, who hold office because of the lie that they are "Arab" aren't going to let go of power, and can't change their minds. So they reinforce the propaganda. People like Matoub Lounes were assassinated for defending their Berber heritage. You still hear on the news people like the Assyrians and Yazidis getting killed in Syria due to their "ethic difference".
But Genetics don't lie. North Africans have strong genetic ties to their Berber ancestors who lived there long before Arabs were ever a group. North Africans also have lots of mixture from Europeans and other Africans, due to exchanges across the Mediterranean and Saharan trade routes, especially slave trading. Spanish people and West Africans have Berber admixture due to the Moorish empires that conquered them, and sent some settlers.
Ali What in the fuck? So philippinos are Europeans because they speak spanish? Where did you get this logic from? It's not because a country has a language as official, that it should be genetically and culturally assimilated to it. In addition to that, morrocans speak french better that arabic, so morrocans are gauls, celts and germanic?
If you remove the Saudis from the throne of Saudi Arabia, it would no oonger be named after them (at least, I don't think it would), so wouldn't that be called "Arabia"? Or would they just name it after the new dynasty?
Kaiser Wilhelm Had the Hashemite dynasty of Hejaz (who currently rule Jordan), as opposed to the Saud dynasty of Nejd United what is today Saudi Arabia, the state would likely have been named the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia. Jordan, the last Hashemite ruled state left, is officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, whilst Iraq when it was under Hashemite rule was the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and Hejaz during their rule was the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz.
Kaiser Wilhelm probably not most saudis today are very nationalistic with their identity as saudis it’s hard to explain but we would never get rid of our monarchy since it’s a symbol of our identity as a people and we refer to ourselves as saudis.. so yeah
M of bourbon The whole idea of it is preposterous though. Eventually as all things the Saud family will die off and culture will change. What happens when the Sauds no longer rule Arabia? Will it become a democratic nation or just throw up a new monarchal dynasty?
PhoenixFires Or it becomes a communist dictatorship, called the Arab Socialist Republic
Well.. based on the current climate most people here will never likely abandon the title of Saudi since its of nationalist significance I don’t know how to quite explain this it’s like telling the french to stop calling them selfs french ? It’s hard to explain but most probably if the monarchy doesn’t continue it’ll most likely be replaced by another noble tribal dynasty since Arabs to this day still take this stuff very seriously especially saudis but as for the current climate most saudis I know take a huge amount of pride in the monarchy since it’s like a huge part of their national identity.. sorry for my bad grammar / English.
North Africans are considered arabs because of the Arab and Islamic conquest in the 8th century. Unlike south/middle Asian countries who been concerned by the Arab like India and Afghanistan, North African adopted the Arabic language,that's why they're arabs even though the culture could vary significantly between each country.
Great video though.
KeZaRo0
Afghanistan is a part of the cultural borders of Iran though...
Lion King Iran itself was concerned by the Arabs in 7th century, they adopted the Arabic alphabet but not the language so they are not Arab. That's my point
Anonymous how ancient do you mean? Because before the Islamic conquest the region was inhabited by Berber , Amazighy and many other peoples. But the Arab influence was too strong and the people adopted the Arabic language.
Before the 7th century you couldn't possibly consider them arabs.
As an Arab subscriber, this video gave me migraines...
MnA
Did it say truth about kafir and jihad?
Jordan is arguably Levant or not Levant. Iraq is within the Arabian Peninsula
John Phillips Don't group Kuwait with Mesopotamia. Our culture is more connected with Saudi Arabia.
John Phillips
yes exactly man this video is so inaccurate
@John Phillips lets start with Kuwait, a quick google search of the arabian peninsula shows that kuwait is most definitely a part of that region. As for jordan and iraq big parts of their lands is part of this peninsula its pretty much up to your own opinion if they are part of the peninsula. As for the maghreb and north africa, they have been heavily arabized culturally and linguistically. The berber culture has been and still is vanishing into minorities as fot the berber language there has been a resurgence with many speakers today, lets not get sidetracked this video was about arabia not as in the peninsula but as how he says it the land of the arabs.
The maghreb is definitely part of that as seen by the culture and language and people living there
North Africa is Berber as well as Arab. It’s important not to wash away the “Berber”. They should hold a relationship similar to how the right and left eye have equal standing in the skull. 😂
wait wait wait.... you try to explain the northern part of africa as arabic because its close to a desert? no mention of the Muslim conquest that subjugated the entire land from the northwest of spain all the way to the western part of India to their rule? I mean its THE reason why its arabic and you dont even mention it, not even a word.
Why?
mkooij He SAUD he didn't know history. But even so it is surprising he would not know such a massive part of history.
Well I *suppose* that could also contribute a little. But you cannot argue with his impeccable logic.
@@PhoenixFires crazy he'd make a whole "educational" video without knowing that, like they even ruled spain, dude didn't even research before making the video
The guy doesn’t know what he is talking about, he should’ve done more research. How can you forget 639 AD ??
I hope he will do better next time
I think there would be the hashemite kingdom of arabia if the british did their promise to the king of arabs which was Al shareef Hussian who fought against the ottomans and the promise was 1 united arab country,but the brit betrayed him and put straight borders.
Actually the word for desert in hebrew is midbar, but arava is A. willow (tree)
B. an area in south israel. Although, the word ma’arav, with the same root as arava means west, so maybe arab used the mean western, or it became that in hebrew for some sort of reason.
Also fun fact: the name for the arabian peninsula in hebrew is khatzi ha’i arav meaning the half island of arabia
you got it correctly
"Arabia" usually used as a short for the "Arabian Peninsula"
greetings from "Arabia" :)
Bahrain is an island and soon will be Qatar. I guess you can say those will be the islands of the Arabs.
*The name "Algeria" actually happens to mean "islands" in Arabic; though it absurdly looks like an entire desert landmass was named for a bunch of small habitable islands along the Mediterranean coast!*
@@Suite_annamite I mean Mozambique was also named after one single island
Note: 'Arab or possibly its root ( ع-ر-ب) is also used to mean fluent in a language; having a great tongue, this is because of the Pre-Islamic Arabs' poetry is a very detailed one with clear meanings and words describing all kinds of things.
1:41 Somalia isnt arabic
Scruffy Rodriguez
but is is a part of the Arab league for some reason...
Lion King Its muslim
invalid argument, because in that case also we could say that Turkey and Malaysia are Arabic countries
flip twista
Iran is not Arab too...but It has a large population of Arabic speakers, so does Turkey and Israel....but Somalia is an official member of the Arab league, even though it Speaks Somali (mostly)
Neither is morocco
Fact: every single Arabian in the world his origins would be from Yemen.
I don't expect a Najdi to be informed on any matter.
Do one about a planet name or a galaxy or a machine not just geographically or countries or ethnics names. love your content. thanks
The name Arab does not mean desert. You will find it in Akkadian writing.
*Iraq and Jordan* are not historically, culturally, or even politically part of the Arabian peninsula; Iraqis have always *seen Kuwait as a southern, Gulf colony* , while the *Jordanians are actually Palestinians ruled by Saudi rejects.*
These two countries, like their other northern Arab neighbours, *are part of the Levant* (East Mediterranean) *and Mesopotamia* (centered around the Tigris and Euphrates, where the easternmost of the Arab lands gradually merges into the Iranian world).
Indeed. They are not Arabian people. They are semitic but not Arab. Arabs are bedouins
al ‘iraq moment!?!!?
There is an equevlint word in arabic for peninsula, and the region is called arabian peninsula in arabic
Calling it "an island" stem from the fact that tigris and euphrates rivers stretching along the northren border of the peninsula, giving it a sort of metaphoric discription of th region as an island
To be Honnest It is called شبه الجزيرة العربية that is pronounced Chabh AlJazira AlArabiya and it mean the arab peninsula ... so ... it is called a peninsula not an Islande .
But very good video
советский финикийский ohh....so Al Jazeera (the news) means arabian peninsula? Wow, never know that
if al-jazeera=the island
chabh=peninsula
then chabh al jazeera alarabiya=the arab island peninsula?
why is 'jazeera' included?
M Meidiano Al Fajri to be more precis Chibh AlJazira means arabic peninsula but jazira means island
Edgar Garred look : Al-Jazeera = the Island
Chibh =somthing looks that like some other thing
Chibh Al-Jazera = the place that looks like an Island => the peninsula
I know it is complicated ... but 🤷♂️
Not true...the original name is Jazeerat Al arab.
0:42 correct, it is called The Arab Island because it is easier! *Jazirat Al-Arab* is shorter than *Shubh Jazirat Al-Arab* which means The Arabian peninsula or literally *Semi-Island of the Arabs*
جزيرة العرب = Arab Island
شبه جزيرة العرب = The Arabian peninsula
What Syria isn't most of Syria in Arabia not the Levant? By the way love your vids.
The Worldconquer Syria is Arabic, but historically it has always been a very mixed region so it makes sense.
Syria is usually considered to be part of the Levant.
Might wana brush up a bit on your geography there or you'll end up conquering Mars instead.
Would be cool to watch though...
The Worldconquer most of the Syrian population is in the Levant (west Syria) but yes Badia (Southeast Syria) is almost half of Syria and it is basically part of the Arabian peninsula.
Gabro Ego
haha but they are the majority now
Nice video man!
"When you hear Arabia you think of things that are Persian"
Another fact all the Arab comes originally from YEMEN and we all sons of ADNAN and KAHATAN and mostly from YAARUB IBN KAHATAN and the Arab who speaks authentic language with no mistake and it's called iearab
You showed the Hollywood sign in a UA-cam video! Oh no!
2:40 '' Arava '' is a desert in Israel, not the word desert, the word "desert" in Hebrew is "midbar"
jack and friends Wadi Araba in Arabic, it's named after us I guess heh
jack and friends dont say that after the end of the world, muslim have to go to Israel, I belive it is a god's plan :(
DylanDino2017דילן Correct
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M Meidiano Al Fajri say wathever you wand dude, im jewish who lives in the west bank
What about syria?
Syria (along with Lebanon), Iraq, and Jordan (along with Palestine) are collectively all "northern Arabs" who are part of the Levant (East Mediterranean) and Mesopotamia, and not part of the Arabian peninsula.
Le Huy-Anh oh ok
While it's natural to have ancestral influence from your neighbour, Lebanese and Syrians are mostly not ethnically Arab. Same way that the Gulf Arabs may have Levantine influenced ancestry, but are mostly non-Levantine.
The truth of the matter is that there's no single monolithic Arab culture spanning the entire MENA region. Just a gradient of similarity from Morocco to Oman, with Arabic as the official written language.
fdfxd2 Syriacs not Phoencian
David Jaber
most of the levantine people now are Arabs immigrants
I am a Hebrew speaker and there are many words for desert thr main one is *midbar* but thereare no wards who are close to what you hace said in the video
The Hebrew wards are : midbar מדבר , yeshimon ישימון and Tzina. צינה.
Wait where did he mention Hebrew.
@@alarabi98 2:42
There is the word *arava* ערבה that is colser too savanna.
isn't the hebrew word for desert "midbar"?
yes but ערבה is like savanah and also a region in the negev
Wrong. In Arabic we call it "Shebeh-Jazirat El-Arab" which means Arabian Penensula, never once have i heard someone call it Arabian Island
Arab means eloquent...Arabs have had a strong oral tradition of poetry...Arab Ibn Qahtan is the mythological father of the Arab race ...his name translate the eloquent son of the desert....Arabs add 'IA' at the end of the words as suffix of language or when they say the country of...'Ad-dawla Al Arabia' the country of Arabia' ...Arabs of North Africa are there due to the Arabian empires
The United Arab Emirates has one of the best political systems in the world. Basically each emir is effectively a king of his own local region and their president is the chief king. Could say more but then who would read it?
It's Arabian gulf, not Persian gulf
There’s an inaccuracy here, we call the Arabian peninsula “شبه الجزيرة العربية" which translates to “the Arabian peninsula” or transliteraly as “ the arabian semi-island”; either way this name is rarely used, the name more commonly used is “الخليج العربي" which translates to “the Arabian gulf” (oh yea, we don’t call it the “Persian gulf” in the arab world we call it “the Arabian gulf”)
Youssef Mohamed Not true...the original name is Jazeerat Al arab.
You call it A*abian gulf because of bathism or pan-arabism movements in 60s, it's internationally recognized as "Persian Gulf", even your kings before 60s they called it "al khalij al farsi" (Persian Gulf).
*Insert comment about terrorism*
DJWeeb, The Weebening Heh
Boom
IT will Crash and burn
*NATO AND AMERICA*
EvilLordminion777
My comment got deleted (oh wow what a surprise for critizing Islam), but you know damn well as I do what islam says about kafir. Killing kafir is not a sin, and martyrdom cleans all sins
2:05 - North Africa had migrating Arabs arriving, and they adapted to life there for hundreds of years, and NOrth Africa is now heavily Arabic culturally and religiously.
*insert Allahu ackbar joke*
Sondus Hussein
Snackbar
>Allah ackbar
>Allah
>ackbar
Dude you wrote these two wrong, it should be Allahu Akbar, or if you want to be more precise الله أكب
Sondus Hussein Alliyah akbarrah! 🎆🎆🎆🎆
Anal Akbar! - translated as: Anal is Great!
: ^)
@@nattygsbord lmao you said anal bigger! 😂
58:00 I’m an Arabian Saudi (don’t mind my username) it’s actually called Arabian peninsula (Shebh al jazyirah Al Arabyia) or the peninsula of Arabs in English but we use Al Jazirat Al Arabs (Arabs Island) as shortcut.
why did you remove Palestine from the map ??
they too an Arab country ..
For 4500 years ago the arabs from yemen rule all middle east and NORTH africa the tribes of yemen was spred into syria palestine iraq in the NORTH of arabia then the tribe rule NORTH africa to many think arabs come when islam comes but this its wrong the arabs was there long before islam you can Google IT the the tribes of qahtan and the tribes of adnan and the tribes of ghassanid and you will understand the full history of arab country
sheyma mysam habibti you most be proud becouse the yemenis are prophet Noah children and from Noah the arabs comes to this world sam or sem are son of Noah and all semetic comes from sam or sem like the arab and the jew
Arabian Gulf not "Persian Gulf" 🇧🇭🇰🇼🇴🇲🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪🇾🇪
persian gulf!
Not an expert on geography
Has a UA-cam channel where geography is a key component
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Ali insha'Allah Kurdistan will be independent. Honestly an Arabia and a Kurdistan together can BTFO Turkey and Iran easily.
Middle East Arabs are Semitic origin
North African Arabs are Hamitic origin
Arabia is an Island, they have a more nuanced definition of Islands. The sand constitutes as much of a barrier as the water.
It’s called shebh gezeera, similar to an island , which in Arabic means peninsula
Actually it's not called Jazirat Al-Arab, it's called Shibeh Jazirat Al-Arab which means Penninsula or "The likeness of an island" on Arabic so the Arabic version is right and accurate as is the English one.
Jordan isn’t part of the Arabian peninsula it’s part of the Levant
Nabateans are arabian like Petra
@@thawsief91 Petra is in the levant bro, it was in the Syria vilayat
@@regularman5914 hegra maidan saleh look similar to Petra
Jaziira means a piece of land mostly or completely surrounded by water and is also used to reference Mesopotamia in Arabic. Its principle use is in islands in MSA and other modern dialects, but the classical definition isn't wrong, it's just shifted from its modern sense.
I’ve always wondered about this question… but the Hebrew word for desert is midbar מדבר (which has the root meaning “to talk” and I have no idea how that happened). With that tho, the Biblical word was arava ערבה. Nowadays, though, the words with that root (ערב) have to do with the evening and the west (and Arabic). The word erev ערב (evening) dates back to Biblical Hebrew. I’ve always found it interesting how that root could refer to people who originated east of Israel, and how the term mizrakhi מזרחי (literally “eastern”) refers to Jews from the same areas.
Hey there name explainers ans patrick I have a tiny question or a video proposal, why new delhi is called like that is ther an old dehli and if so where is it ,
new delhi is an extension of the city delhi built by the british
actually, there was two countries that held all Arabs in it which is the Umayyad caliphate and the Abbasid caliphate
Interesting video! Just a pointer in Arabic we don’t call the peninsula an island we call it “shibh al jazerra” (شبه الجزيرة) which is a direct translation for the word peninsula.
shamsa yes we do...we call it Jazeerat Al Arab..know your history!
hamdoon666 i’m speaking from a geographical point of view, as it seems in this context he also was speaking from a geological perspective, even comparing peninsulas to islands whereby in arabic geography we too perceive “arabia” as a peninsula
Hey mate!
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I am an Israeli and Hebrew is my mother tongue and I have to make a small correction, Arava in Hebrew is somewhat of a Savannah and not a dessert. Arabs in Hebrew are Aravim (the suffix "im" plurulizes) and Arabia is Arav.
Man, Saydi Arabia is only called "Saudi" because that's the name of the royal family. If the royal family were called something else, we'd call it something else arabia. Saudi isn't part of the actual country's name, which is in fact Arabia.
Also, Somalia isn't an Arabic country.
The definition for arab country used here is being a member of the arab league something that many of the countries in aren't really arab(for example egyptians have their own dialect,culture,traditions and ethnicity)Saudi Arabia technically just means the saudi's region of arabia
Well, I guess the North African countries refer to themselves as Arabs because they all speak Arabic, even though the dialects vary. They all predominantly speak Arabic today because of the expansion of the early Arab Rashidun, Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates that eventually over time assimilated the inhabiatans of those lands into Arabic culture, with the previous languages mostly being replaced by Arabic, since it was the language of prestige and society.
Since language is such an important part of identity, it can be used to explain why certain groups refer and percieve themselves to belong to a certain group, i.e north africans and the fertile crescent inhabitants seeing themselves as Arabs, when previously they were Assyrian, Coptic Egyptian, Berber etc etc. Some of these older semitic identities have survived in Christian minorities, such as the Chaldeans in Iraq, Assyrians in Syria, Copts in Egypt, as well as Muslim Berbers still speaking Berber languages like Amazigh.
For me, Arabia is the Arabian peninsular, and the other Arabic speaking countries are Arabic countries, but I prefer to see them grouped in differrent regions, such as; the Levant, Maghreb etc.
John Phillips Hey, thanks for engaging in the discussion. I also said that they have been assimilated into Arabic culture and Arabic has been predominant for the best part of a millennia. My main point of this topic surrounds the term 'Arabia.' I see that term as referring only to the peninsular, even though the Arabic world has expanded much since the 7th century, since I see the peninsular as the 'original' (I use that term very loosely) homeland of the early Arabs, prior to their expansion against the Romans and Persians. I suppose a parallel could be Britain and how even though Anglo-Saxon culture has expanded as a result of the Colonial age to form new countries; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S, we don't collectively refer to all of these lands as 'Brittania,' despite the fact that we share a language, common history, culture and religion.
Am moroccan and dont speak arabic neither do most of east and north morocco also moroccans in europe are europe 80% berber the 20% is arabized
@John Phillips Egyptians, mesopotamians, Berbers, Arabs and levantians(not sure of the spelling) have never been ethnically the same, the Arab-islamic conquest and cross breeding between them may have left Arab DNA in their gene pool but they are mostly the same as they were before, and every nation has a unique culture although they are similar in many ways because of religion
@@supremerevelations North African culture look nothing like the culture of Arabian peninsula
You didn't really explain why are the North African countries considered to be Arab countries. Well for one these countries (or at least many of them) have a majority of Arabic speakers. I'm not terribly familiar with the history but I'd venture to guess that the language (and maybe some other cultural features as well) were brought by Arab conquerors. That's at least the case for Egypt.
Yay, you explain the name of Aladdin's country. Arabia!
I always thought Aladdin came from Persia
*Aladdin's actually a tale about Chinese Muslims from western China, while Captain Sinbad is actually from Basra, Iraq!*
Aladdin is originally an Indian folk tale which was brought to Persia by Khosrow Anushirvan of the Sassanids and then from middle-Persian to Arabic in the 8th century.
We also call the Arabian Peninsula in Arabic "شبه الجزيرة العربية" (Shibhul Jariza Al-Arabiya) which literally means "Arabian Peninsula" . Yes, the name you said is widely used, but this one is also used
*It's also surrounded by chains of mountains* hence _Island_
Plus; you forget to take _Arabia Felix_ and _Arabia Magna_
@sheyma mysam That the old theory.
Actually in Arabic it’s know as ‘ الخليج العربي‘ or the Arabian gulf. I’ve lived in the uae for 11 years, and Arabic is my mother tounge, I would know.
And emir أمير is also the word for prince
Fun fact: Islam is derived from the Arabic word for peace
It's internationally recognized as "Persian Gulf".
By the way the Arabian peninsula stretches through parts of Iraq 🇮🇶 not all of it & parts of Syria
It's a shame Arabia doesn't contain any actual genies. (That would make some of those oil-rich nations even more popular with tourists.)
trust, I am an arab, and I wish there are genies
Alexander Lehigh there was a lot of interesting things in ancient Arabia empires 1000 years ago lots of famous tales but today’s world there’s nothing
Video idea: How do name vehicles? (Cars,automobiles,trains,subways,air plains,jets,etc)
Emirates in arabic is the plural of emara which literally means the small state , when the Uae established there was a suggestion to include both bahrain and qatar pointing at those two as 2 emirates + the 7 UAEmirates.
Fun fact despite looking white as bread. I got my DNA tested. I am several percent Arab. Someone respond to my comment.
North Africans aren't called Arabs because it's also a desert; they are Arabs who migrated into north Africa
Today's republic of Moldova used to be called "Bessarabia" interestingly enough :)
"Bessarabia" comes from the name of "Bessarab/Basarab". It has no direct connection with the Arab countries.
*JUST.GET.TO.THE.POINT.*
There's no need for explaining why North Africa is part of the Arab world even though it's not in the Arabian Peninsula... There's no need to ask yourself questions if you're anyway not going to answer them.
Actually, Morocco isn't considered an Arab country...their naibours to the east, Algeria is an Arab country.
I don't understand why it is so, but I do know it's a very important distinction for the Moroccan people, that they are distinct from the rest of the arab world.
What you say I know to be true...that what I was told by people of Moroccan decent...I always thought Morocco was an Arab country, but when I said so to a person of Moroccan decent he got angry and said that Moroccans are Maghreb and not Arab at all.
Yes, Morocco, Algeeia, Tunesia, Libya,=Amazigh countries NOT Arab
0:54
In Arabic we call it "shibh al-jazeera al-arabeya" which translates to "the Arabian Peninsula" not island
al•jah•zee•re al•a•ra•bee•yah
The Arabia is the map of the Rashidoon Caliphate, that is Arabia