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Hegira , Hegira •airer, bearer, carer, Clara, darer, declarer, Demerara, Éire, habanera, Halmahera, parer, Perak, primavera, repairer, Rivera, Riviera, Sarah,… Saracen , Saracen •Masson •flaxen, Jackson, klaxon, Sachsen, Saxon, waxen •Samson •Branson, Jansen, Manson, Nansen •arson, Carson, fasten, parson, sarsen •Bres… Sheikh , Sheikh
ETHNONYM: Shaikh
The Sheikhs are Sunni Muslims, widespread in northern and central India as well as Pakistan and all of Bangladesh. Of the fou… Arab Americans , The first Arabs to immigrate in large numbers to the United States were Lebanese Christians in the 1880s (see Lebanese Americans ). Lebanese Muslims… Allah , Allah
The word "Allah" is derived from the Arabic language and simply means God. As it first received currency as the name for the deity in the Qur'a… Arab , A person who speaks Arabic as a first language and self-identifies as Arab.
Arabs comprise less than one-quarter of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.…
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