What is the diffrences between iranians and arabs?(they are both muslims)?

Answer 1

Arabs and Iranians are both Muslim, but both have different ethnic roots, languages, and cultural roots. Americans often get the two confused because they both live far away and are both Muslim and foreign. While both peoples share some cultural similiraties, for all intents and purposes they are very different. The difference is more than that the Arabs simply speak Arabic and the Iranians Farsi. There are also Arab shi'ites (dispersed throughout the Arab world) and Iranian Sunnis. To make matters more complicated, there are Arab Jews, Christians, and Muslims, as well as Irani Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Before Iran became known as "The Islamic Republic of Iran" in 1979 after the Islamic revolution there, it was known as the "Persia" and had a King, Reza Mohammed Pahlavi. It is for this reason that many Iranians who fled the 1979 revolution in Iran that you meet dispersed around the world refer to themselves as "Persians" rather than "Irani."

Below is some ethnic information on the origins of the Arab and Irani peoples.

The Persians of Iran are descendents of the Aryan (Indo-Iranian) tribes that began migrating from Central Asia into what is now Iran in the 2nd millennium BC.[10][11][12] The Persian language and other Iranian tongues emerged as these Aryan tribes split up into two major groups, the Persians and the Medes, and intermarried with peoples indigenous to the Iranian plateau such as the Elamites.[13][14] The first known written record about them is from an Assyrian inscription of the 834 BC, which mentions both Parsua (Persians) and Madai (Medes).[15][16]

The ancient Persians from the province of Pars became the rulers of a large empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (Hakhamanesheeyan) in the sixth century BC, reuniting the tribes and other provinces of the ancient Iranian plateau and forming the Persian Empire. Over the centuries Persia was ruled by various dynasties; some of them were ethnic Iranians including the Achaemenids, Parthians (Ashkanian), Sassanids (Sassanian), Buwayhids and Samanids, and some of them were not, such as the Seleucids, Ummayyads, Abbasids, Seljuk Turks, Afsharids and Qajars.

* Biblical tradition: in the Biblic context someone who is a descendant of Abraham through his son Ishmael, and his sons Medan and Median. The Biblical patriarch Abraham had a son named Ishmael by his Egyptian concubine Hagar. At his Hebrew wife Sarah's request Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away to the desert. Genesis 25:18 states that Ishmael "lived in the territory stretching from Havilah-by-Shur just outside Egypt on the way to Assyria, and he held his own against his kinsmen." Havilah-by-Shur may be the area northeast of the Nile River mentioned in Genesis 2:11. Ishmael married a woman from thee arab tribe of jurhum and fathered twelve sons, who became the heads of the twelve tribes of the Eastern Arabs of the Middle East. Thus, Ishmael was the progenitor of the twelve tribes of "Ishmaelites" or Middle East Arabs, .
Genesis 25:1-5 says that Abraham also married Keturah, who had six sons, of which two sons were Medan and Midian (from whom the Medianites are descended). They may have been 1/2 Egyptian; if Medan and Median married Egyptian women (as Ishmael did) the Medanites and Medianites would have been 3/4 Egyptian. These two tribes may be the African or Desert Bedouins, referred to as Arabs. The Midianites were later referred to in the Bible as "Ishmaelites".
* Islamic tradition: According to Islamic tradition an Arab is a person descending Isma'il (Ishmael) son of The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham).
* Ethnic identity: someone who considers him or herself to be an Arab (regardless of racial or ethnic origin) and is recognized as such by others.
* Linguistic: someone whose first language is Arabic (including any of its varieties); this definition covers more than 250 million people. Arabic belongs to the Semitic family of languages.
* Genealogical: someone who can trace his or her ancestry back to the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Desert.
* Political: someone who is a resident or citizen of a country where Arabic is one of the official languages or the national language, or is a member of the Arab League or is part of the wider Arab world; this definition would cover more than 300 million people, but it is rather simplistic and rigid in that it excludes the entire Diaspora but includes indigenous or migrant minorities.

Answer 2

Iranians are also known as persians. An arabic race which has an amazing culture and heritage.
Arab is a loose word meaning arabic again but without any reference to a nationality or a religion.
Therefore if you say somebody is arab, it doesnt mean much, it may hint to their coming from North Africa or the Saharan Desert....whereas saying somebody is Iranian is definately pointing out the country of origin, and then again being a muslim is another subject.
All people can convert to the Moslem religion and not have arabic origins. And again not all arabs and Iranians are MUSLIM. There are many many religions in those parts of the world.

Answer 3

First of all, Iranians and Arabs can be Muslims, Christians and Judaisms!
Arabs are more light than Iranians and they are more open minded, cause they are very rich. Iranians Muslims kept some of their costumes before Islam so they are maybe little more aggressive. For example they circumcise their women's and they have to ware feredja, cover on the face. But Arabs have more pure Islam and don't do things like that!

Answer 4

Iranians are people from Iran, its a nationality

Arabs is a definition used for people living in North Africa and the Middle East, from western Morocco to Oman, and from Turkey in the north to Yemen and Sudan in the south. Arabs are usually Muslims but they do not have to be Muslim to be Arabs

Answer 5

Arabs Are originally black and Real Iranians are white and sometimes blue eyed and havin' a light hair.
white arabs are originally aryan and the reason of darker skin of some of the iranians is from the influence of the rays of the sun. but they are white in all.for example my father is blue eyed and has a light hair(Wheat-colored) and his father n his uncle had the same Apparent specifications . that is the racial difference.

Arabs' Ancestors were pagan and believed in several gods,and persians' ancestors were first mithraist (Mehrparast) that worshiped the Mithra(Mitra or mehr -means sun) the god of sun which for them,is like vishnu for the hindus .and then they've converted into ZOROASTERIANISM . it is the religious difference.

and the cultural difference is ,iranians are more like European people ,and arabs are just like africans and jews.

hope it helps.

Answer 6

I think Iranians and Arabs are both Semites-Mid-East People,but Iranians'll tell you in a minute that they're not Arabs.Being an American,I wouldn't know the difference myself.I believe there are many varieties of Semites and they don't all want to be misidentified as Arab.I also read that Iranians don't want to be called Moslems,but Iranians-Ethnicity vs.Theocracy.

Answer 7

Iran is a country thus Iranian is a nationality
But not all Iranians are Arabs there are Berbers too
Arab describes a group of people not a certain nation

Answer 8

What's the difference between Sri Lankans and Thai? I hear that many of them are Buddhist.

Ethnicity, maaaaaaaan. Iranians speak Farsi, Arabs speak Arabic.

Answer 9

Well,

Arabian is the "macro-nationality" of the muslims - though there are muslims that aren't arabs...
Iranian (so called also Persian) is somebody from Iran ((Well, and he is Arab.))

Arabs and Iranians are muslims...

There are also wierdos from lebanon who are Arabs and Christians...

Hope that I answered your question................

Answer 10

Nationality!