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List of Iranian Arabs

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This is a list of Iranian Arab notable people, arranged by main profession and then birthdate. To avoid differences in nomenclature and identity, this list starts from the 16th century (early modern period), When the Safavids established a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region.[1]

The identity of Iranian Arab people and their affiliation are different, Arab identity itself is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab.[2] Their identities, like those of other Iranian cultural and ethnic identities, are based on a common culture-land-historical experience or traditional lineage. Today, these commonalities are generally regional and in the historical-tribal context, as many of them assimilated with the largest ethnic group in Iran, the Persians, and they are not identified except by sub-symbols such as Arabic surnames, including: Bani-Amiri, Asadi, Khazaei, Tamimi, etc, apart from Hashimi nasabs like: Mousavi, Hosseini, Hassani, Alavi, Tabatabai, Sadr, Fatemi, etc. Today, prominent Arab communities in Iran can be clearly seen through national, regional, or local identity. They come from various backgrounds in the scattered regions of present-day or historical Iran and are concentrated, especially in the southwest of the country where the Arabs of Khuzestan live. In the south, prominent groups of them live on the shores and islands of the Persian Gulf in the provinces of Hormozgan, Fars and Bushehr. Khorasan Arabs also live in cities and villages in the east and northeast of the country. Other groups of Iranian Arabs worth mentioning include immigrants to Iran from Arab countries and their descendants, especially from the Mashriq and the Arabian Peninsula, people of Arab tribes descent, naturalized Arab individuals of Iran and other Arab sub-communities settled in Iran or Iranian diaspora in Arab countries who became Arabized.[3]

Among the Arab-affiliated groups and ethnicities in present-day Iran are: Arab-Persians, people of mixed Arab and Persian ethnic or cultural background; Arabic-speaking Afro-Iranians and those who may be called Iranian Afro-Arabs; Assyrians and Mandaeans, both of which are natives of the Middle East and speak a branch of the Semitic languages that are closely related to Arabic, like the Iranian Jews; Iranian diaspora in Arab countries and vice versa, Arab expatriates in Iran who would not be included in the list unless they became permanent residents of Iran or are customarily considered as Iranian; Iranian Arabists etc.

This list is not automatically filled with notables from Arab regions in Iran such as Khuzestan or Hormozgan, but the following people have either stated that they are Arabs or that credible sources indicate that. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Arab and Iranian.

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Arts and entertainment

Actors and actresses

  • Reza Fayazi - (6 July 1953, Ahvaz) director and actor; Khuzestani Arab.[4]
  • Osamah Sami - (10 March 1983, Qom) stage and screen actor, writer, spoken word artist, and stand-up comedian; Iran-born Iraqi-Australian.[5]

Directors

Singers and instrumentalists

Main article: List of Iranian musicians

Painters and photographers

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Branches of science

  • Abd al-Hussein al-Salihi - (8 January 1936, Karbala – 15 October 2014, Qazvin) Historian and religious writer; Iranian-Iraqi.[10]
  • Yousef Azizi - (21 April 1951, Susangerd) Linguist and historian; Khuzestani Arab.[11]
  • Kamal Eleanz - (21 January 1978, Kut-e Abdollah) Theologian and Linguist and philosopher; Khuzestani Arab.[12][13][14][15]
  • Adnan Gharifi [16]

Literature

Fiction writers

Linguists and literary scholars

Poets

See also: Category:Arabic-language Iranian poets

Literary translators

Law and jurisdiction

Victims

  • Hashem Shabani - (1982, Ahvaz - 27 January 2014, Ahvaz) Teacher, poet, activist and torture victim; Khuzestani Arab.[19]

Media

Journalists

  • Abbas Khalili - (1896, Najaf – 10 February 1972, Tehran) Journalist, diplomat, poet and novelist; Iranian-Iraqi.[20]
  • Hasan Badi' - (1872, Kadhimiya -1937, Tehran) Journalist, writer, poet and diplomat; Iranian-Iraqi.[21]

Military

  • Shahriar Shafiq - (15 March 1945, Cairo – 7 December 1979, Paris) Imperial Navy Captain and a member of the House of Pahlavi; Iranian-Egyptian.[22]
  • Hamid Taqavi - (1955, Ahvaz – 27 December 2014, Samarra) IRGC commander; Khuzestani Arab.[23]
  • Ali Shamkhani - (29 September 1955, Ahvaz) Navy admiral and IRGC commander; Khuzestani Arab.[24][25]
  • Ali Qasim Hashemi - (31 December 1961, Ahvaz - 25 June 1988, Majnoon Island) IRGC commander; Khuzestani Arab.[citation needed]
  • Hassan Danaeifar - (1962, Shushtar) IRGC commander, civil engineer, diplomat and politician; Khuzestani Arab.[26]
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Politics and government

Emirs

Diplomats

Members of parliament

Islamic Consultative Assembly

  • Jasem Jaderi - (21 March 1957, Susangerd - March 10, 2021, Tehran) reformist politician and executive director, member of the 3rd, 4th and 5th; Khuzestani Arab.[35]
  • Shabib Jovijari - (1967, Ahvaz) Member of the 7th, 8th and 11th; Khuzestani Arab.[36]
  • Majid Naseri Nejad - (1967, Shadegan) Member of 11th; Khuzestani Arab.[37]
  • Karim Hosseini - (1969, Shadegan) Member of 11th; Khuzestani Arab.

Assembly of Experts

Political party members

Royal court

  • Fawzia Fuad of Egypt - (5 November 1921, Alexandria – 2 July 2013, Alexandria) Queen consort of Iran 1941–1948; Naturalized Iranian-Egyptian.
  • Shahnaz Pahlavi - (27 October 1940, Tehran) Pahlavi princess; Iranian-Egyptian-Swiss.[citation needed]
  • Azadeh Shafiq - (1951, Tehran – 23 February 2011, Paris) Pahlavi princess; Iranian-Egyptian.[44]
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Religion

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Bahá'í figures

Iranian Bahá'í figures those related to the Arab world, except Baháʼu'lláh the prophet-founder of Baháʼí Faith, he who spent his exile life from 1863 in Ottoman Iraq and Palestine

  • ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - (23 May 1844, Tehran – 28 November 1921, Haifa) Leader of the Baháʼí Faith; Iranian emigrant to the Ottoman Iraq and Palestine.[45]
  • Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - (July 1844, Golpaygan - 21 January 1914, Cairo) Scholar, religious writer and missioner; Arabized, Iranian Egypt-based.[46]
  • Mírzá Mihdí - (1848, Tehran – 23 June 1870, Haifa) Youngest child of Baháʼu'lláh; Ottoman-Palestinian Iranian.
  • Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí - (16 December 1853, Baghdad - 10 December 1937, Haifa) one of the sons of Bahá'u'lláh; Iraq-born Iranian.[47]
  • Shoghi Effendi - (1 March 1897, Acre – 4 November 1957, London) Religious leader, Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 to 1957; Arabized, Ottoman-Palestinian of Iranian descent.[48]

Islamic religious poets and writers

Sufis and Islamic philosophers

Islamic scholars and jurists

  • Ni'matollah al-Jazayiri - (1640, Al-Sabbaghiyah -1701, Papil) Ja'fari jurist, religious writer and teacher; Safavid Iranian-Iraqi.[57]
  • Al-Hurr al-Amili - (1624, Machghara -1693, Mashhad) Ja'fari jurist and qadi; Levantine Arab-Safavid Iranian.[58]
  • Nur al-Din Nimatullah al-Jazayiri - (1677, Shushtar - 29 December 1745, Shushtar) Ja'fari jurist, linguist and writer; Safavid Iranian, Khuzestani Arab.[59]
  • Kazim Rashti - (1793, Rasht –1 January 1843, Karbala) Ja'fari jurist; Iranian of Hejazi Hashimi descent, then Iranian-Iraqi.[60]
  • Murtadha al-Ansari - (13 May 1800, Dezful - 18 November 1864, Najaf) Ja'fari jurist; Khuzestani Arab, then Iranian-Iraqi.[61]
  • Abdullah Behbahani - (1840, Najaf - 16 July 1910, Tehran) Ja'fari jurist and a constitutional movement leader; Bahrani Iranian-Iraqi.[62]
  • Muhammad Hossein Gharavi - (26 December 1878, Kadhimiya - 13 December 1942, Najaf) Ja'fari jurist, religious writer and poet; Iranian-Iraq.[63]
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei - (19 November 1899, Khoy - 8 August 1992, Kufa) Ja'fari jurist and marja'; Iranian-Iraqi.[64]
  • Abbas al-Mohri - (1912, Mohri - 15 February 1988, Tehran) Ja'fari jurist; Iranian-Kuwaiti.[65]
  • Musa al-Sadr - (4 June 1928, Qom – disappeared 31 August 1978, Libya) Ja'fari jurist and Islamic leader; Iranian-Lebanese.[66]
  • Ali al-Sistani - (4 August 1930, Mashhad) Ja'fari jurist and marja'; Iranian-Iraqi.[67]
  • Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi - (15 August 1948, Najaf – 24 December 2018, Tehran) Ja'fari jurist, qadi and politician; Iranian-Iraqi.[68]
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Sports

Athletes

Basketball players

Football players

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References

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