Arab Christians | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Arab Christians


00:02:23 1 History
00:02:32 1.1 Classic antiquity
00:05:19 1.2 Islamic era
00:07:27 1.3 Role in al-Nahda
00:11:37 1.4 Modern era
00:13:25 2 Demographics
00:13:34 2.1 Middle East
00:13:43 2.1.1 Egypt
00:14:47 2.1.2 Iraq
00:16:41 2.1.3 Israel
00:20:01 2.1.4 Jordan
00:22:13 2.1.5 Lebanon
00:24:35 2.1.6 Palestine
00:26:48 2.1.7 Gaza Strip
00:27:11 2.1.8 Syria
00:30:13 2.1.9 Turkey
00:30:55 2.1.10 Arabian Peninsula
00:33:05 2.2 North Africa
00:34:31 2.3 Diaspora
00:35:22 3 Doctrine
00:36:03 4 Affiliated communities
00:36:30 4.1 Melkites
00:36:55 4.2 Greek Orthodox
00:37:26 4.2.1 Rum Christians
00:37:59 4.2.2 Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
00:38:25 4.2.3 Orthodox Church of Alexandria
00:39:45 4.3 Evangelic adherents
00:40:35 5 Question of identity
00:40:49 5.1 Assyrians
00:41:15 5.2 Copts
00:44:04 5.3 Maronites
00:45:11 5.4 Aramean identity
00:47:00 5.5 Pan-Syrian identity
00:49:21 6 Genetic studies
00:50:36 6.1 Relation of Levantine populations to Phoenicians
00:50:46 7 See also
00:52:25 8 References



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Arab Christians (Arabic: مسيحيون عرب‎ Masīḥiyyūn ʿArab) are Arabs of the Christian faith. Many are descended from ancient Arab Christian clans that did not convert to Islam, such as the Kahlani Qahtanite tribes of Yemen (i.e., Ghassanids, and Banu Judham) who settled in Transjordan and Syria, as well as Arabized Christians, such as Melkites and Antiochian Greek Christians. Arab Christians, forming Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities, are estimated to be 520,000–703,000 in Syria, 221,000 in Jordan, 134,130 in Israel and around 50,000 in Palestine. There is also a sizable Arab Christian Orthodox community in Lebanon and marginal communities in Iraq, Turkey and Egypt. Emigrants from Arab Christian (including Melkite-Antiochian Greek Christians) communities make up a significant proportion of the Middle Eastern diaspora, with sizable population concentrations across the Americas, most notably in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and the US.The first Arab tribes to adopt Christianity were likely Nabataeans and Ghassanids. During the fifth and sixth centuries, the Ghassanids, who at first adopted monophysitism, formed one of the most powerful confederations allied to Christian Byzantium, being a buffer against the pagan tribes of Arabia. The last king of the Lakhmids, al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir, a client of the Sasanian Empire in the late sixth century, also converted to Christianity (in this case, to the Nestorian sect). Arab Christians played important roles in al-Nahda movement in modern times, and because Arab Christians formed the educated upper class and the bourgeoisie, they have had a significant impact in politics, business and culture of the Arab world. Today Arab Christians still play important roles in the Arab world, and Christians are relatively wealthy, well educated, and politically moderate.Arab Christians are not the only Christian group in the Middle East, with significant non-Arab indigenous Christian communities of Assyro-Chaldeans, Arameans, Armenians and others. Although sometimes classified as "Arab Christians", the largest Middle Eastern Christian groups of Maronites and Copts often claim non-Arab ethnicity: a significant proportion of Maronites claim descent from the ancient Phoenicians while Copts also eschew an Arab identity, preferring an Ancient Egyptian one.