Khorasani Arabs are
Iranian Arabs who are descended from the Arabs who immigrated to
the Khorasan area of Iran during the
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (; ) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE), from whom the dynasty takes ...
(750−1258). Unlike the Arabs of Iran's
Khuzestan Province
Khuzestan province () is one of the 31 Provinces of Iran. Located in the southwest of the country, the province borders Iraq and the Persian Gulf, covering an area of . Its capital is the city of Ahvaz. Since 2014, it has been part of Iran's R ...
in the southwestern part of the country, who are direct descendants of the ancient population of the area, the Khorasani Arabs are descended from actual Arab migrants.
According to a 2013 article in peer-reviewed journal ''
Iran and the Caucasus'', the Khorasani Arabs, numbering , are "already almost totally
Persianised".
Most Khorasani Arabs belong to the tribes of
Shaybani,
Zangooyi,
Mishmast,
Khozaima, and
Azdi. Khorasan Arabs are Persian speakers, and only a few speak
Khorasani Arabic as their native language. The cities of
Birjand,
Mashhad
Mashhad ( ; ), historically also known as Mashad, Meshhed, or Meshed in English, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. ...
, and
Nishapur
Nishapur or Neyshabur (, also ) is a city in the Central District (Nishapur County), Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan province, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Ni ...
are home to large groups of Khorasani Arabs.
According to
Ibn Al-Athir, the Abbasids settled about 50,000 Arab families in Iranian Khorasan, modern day Northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan, but the number is definitely exaggerated.
[Prof. Dr. Aydın Usta, Türkler ve İslamiyet, Yeditepe Yayınevi, 1. Baskı, March 2020, s. 56-57 (using the Turkish translation of el-Kamil fi't-Tarih by İbn Al-Athir as a source)]
See also
*
Iranian Arabs
*
Khorasani Arabic
References
Sources
*Persian and German Wikipedia
*Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian. By Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani. Page 162.
Khorasani Arabic
{{Arab diaspora
Arab diaspora in Asia
Medieval Khorasan