Khorasani Arabs are Iranian Arabs who are descended from the Arabs who immigrated to the Khorasan area of Iran during the

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(750−1258). Unlike the Arabs of Iran's

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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 ''

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'', the Khorasani Arabs, numbering , are "already almost totally Persianised". Most Khorasani Arabs belong to the tribes of Shaybani, Zangooyi, Mishmast, Khozaima, and

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. Khorasan Arabs are Persian speakers, and only a few speak Khorasani Arabic as their native language. The cities of

Birjand Birjand ( fa, بیرجند , also Romanized as Bīrjand and Birdjand) is the capital of the Iranian province of South Khorasan. The city is known for its saffron, barberry, jujube, and handmade carpet exports. Birjand had a population of 187,0 ...

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a po ...

, and

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are home to large groups of Khorasani Arabs. According to İbn Al-Athir, the Arabic conquerors settled about 50,000 Arabic families in to 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)

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*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

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