Edited sentence: Many of the Syrian Malabar Nasrani were converted to Islam during Tippu Sultan's invasion of Malabar.Most of  the sailors  came from Western  countries  like Arabia as well as Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.The  word  Mappila was not a  herditary title but it denotes all the foreigners who came to Malabar coast and married native Dravidian girls and became residents of Malabar coast.The prefix before the Mappila denote the country of origin including Arabi Mapilla, Yonaka Mapilla (Greeks and Turks) Nasrani Mapilla (Persian,Jewish, Palestinian, and Syrian immigrants)