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 Hashiminasabs 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.
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]
Miz'al ibn Jabir - (18??, Muhammerah – 1897, Muhammerah) Emir of Arabistan; Khuzestani Arab.[30]
Khazʽal Ibn Jabir - (18 August 1863, Basra – 24 May 1936, Tehran) Sheikh of Mohammerah and Emir of Arabistan; Khuzestani Arab.[31]
Asadollah Alam - (24 July 1919, Birjand – 14 April 1978, New York) 40th Prime Minister of Iran, Emir of Qa'inat; Khorasani Arab,[32] Persinazed. [citation needed]
Jasem Jaderi - (21 March 1957, Susangerd - March 10, 2021, Tehran) reformist politician and executive director, member of the 3rd, 4th and 5th; Khuzestani Arab.[36]
Shabib Jovijari - (1967, Ahvaz) Member of the 7th, 8th and 11th; Khuzestani Arab.[37]
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá - (23 May 1844, Tehran – 28 November 1921, Haifa) Leader of the Baháʼí Faith; Iranian emigrant to the Ottoman Iraq and Palestine.[46]
Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl - (July 1844, Golpaygan - 21 January 1914, Cairo) Scholar, religious writer and missioner; Arabized, Iranian Egypt-based.[47]
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.[48]
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.[49]
Islamic religious poets and writers
Ahmad bin Ismail al-Jazyiri - (?, Al-Jazayir – 1736, Najaf) Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and writer; Iranian-Iraqi of Khuzestani Asadi ancestry.[50]
Ahmad al-Muhsini - (1744, Medina – 1831, Dowraq) Ja'fari jurist, religious and writer and poet; Iranian of Ahsa'i descent.[51]
Muhammad Taha al-Huwayzi - (1899, Najaf – 4 April 1968, Ahvaz) Ja'fari jurist, religious teacher and poet; Iranian-Iraqi and Khuzestani Arab.[52]
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↑ Al-Hadithi, Suleiman (12 June 2015). عباس بن أسد الله .. عراقي من النجف يعشق الشعر النجدي[Abbas bin Assad Allah.. An Iraqi from Najaf loves Najdi poetry]. صحيفة الاقتصادية (Al Mashraq) (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-05-18.
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