HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Arab, Muslim
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Shiite, Muslim
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Muslim, Arab
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Muslim, Umayyad
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. The Arabs can be categorized as a distinct ethnic group in world today. 2. Historically, because of their continual unity, Arabs can be categorized as a political group.
Detailed explanation-2: -Muslims (Arabic: , al-Muslimūn, transl. “Submitters [to God]") are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Detailed explanation-3: -In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sunni Islam is the region’s main religion, and the Maliki Madhhab is the main Islamic school of thought followed by North Africans.