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The Bahārna (, or ), are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs and Persians indigenous to the historical region of Bahrain. Regarded by some scholars as the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia, most Bahraini citizens are Baharna. They inhabited the region before the arrival of the Banu Utbah, from which the Bahraini royal family descends, in the 18th century.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group
Bahārnaالبحارنة
Ethnic group.caption
Bahārna during Muharram
Ethnic group.regions
Indigenous to Eastern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatif, Al-Hasa), with notable presence in Kuwait, UAE, Zanzibar, Iraq (Najaf and Karbala), and Iran (Hormozgan province)
Ethnic group.languages
Arabic (Bahrani Arabic, Bahraini Gulf Arabic)
Ethnic group.religions
Shia Islam (Present)Nestorian Christianity/Eastern Christianity (Pre-Islam)
Ethnic group.related_groups
Khuzestani Arabs, Omani Arabs, Najdi Arabs, Dhofari Arabs, Shihuh, Habus, Kuwaiti Arabs, Emirati Arabs, Qatari Arabs

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Encyclopedic overview

34 sections
Contents
  • Origin
  • Genetics
  • Subgroups
  • Etymology
  • Language
  • Pre-Arabization
  • Bahrani Arabic
  • Culture
  • Traditional Crafts
  • Proverbs
  • Cuisine
  • Clothes
  • History
  • Pre-Islam
  • Islam emerges (628–631 CE)
  • Rashidun Caliphate (632–661 CE)
  • Umayyad dynasty (661–750)
  • Abbassid dynasty (768 CE to 865 CE)
  • Sahib az-Zanj (865 CE to 884 CE)
  • The Carmathians
  • 10th to 13th century
  • 13th–4th century
  • 15th century
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
  • 1920s reforms
  • Notable people
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

The Bahārna (, or ), are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs and Persians indigenous to the historical region of Bahrain. Regarded by some scholars as the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia, most Bahraini citizens are Baharna. They inhabited the region before the arrival of the Banu Utbah, from which the Bahraini royal family descends, in the 18th century.

Outside the modern country of Bahrain, Baharna populations are found throughout Eastern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatif, and al-Ahsa). There are also significant populations in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Iraq (specifically Najaf and Karbala), as well as Khorramshahr and Hormozgan province in Iran.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bahrani people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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