Editing Arab world (section)

===Early history===
{{further|Pre-Islamic Arabia|Arabization}}
[[File:Great Mosque of Kairouan Panorama - Grande Mosquée de Kairouan Panorama.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|The [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]] (also called the Mosque of Uqba) was founded in 670 by the Arab general and conqueror Uqba ibn Nafi.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sm0BfUKwct0C&q=kairouan+oldest+mosques+arab+world&pg=PA248 |title=Hans Kung, ''Tracing the Way: Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions'', éd. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, p. 248 |date=31 August 2006 |access-date=17 October 2011|isbn=9780826494238 |last1=Küng |first1=Hans |publisher=A&C Black }}</ref> The [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]] is located in the historic city of [[Kairouan]] in [[Tunisia]].]]

The [[Arabs]] historically originate as a [[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]] group in the northern [[Arabian Peninsula]], the [[Southern Levant]] and the [[Syrian Desert]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=al-Jallad |first1=Ahmad |title=Ancient Levantine Arabic: A Reconstruction Based on the Earliest Sources and the Modern Dialects |year=2012 |publisher=ProQuest LLC |isbn=9781267445070 |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED547427}}</ref> Arab [[Tribes of Arabia|tribes]] and federations included the [[Nabataeans]], [[Tanukhids]], [[Salihids]], [[Ghassanids]].

Arab expansion is due to the [[early Muslim conquests]] of the 7th and 8th centuries. [[Iraq]] was [[Muslim conquest of Persia|conquered]] in 633, [[Levant]] (modern Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon) was [[Muslim conquest of the Levant|conquered]] between 636 and 640 CE. [[History of Muslim Egypt|Egypt]] was [[Arab conquest of Egypt|conquered]] in 639, and gradually Arabized during the medieval period. A distinctively [[Egyptian Arabic]] language emerged by the 16th century. The [[Maghreb]] was also [[Muslim conquest of the Maghreb|conquered]] in the 7th century, and gradually Arabized under the [[Fatimids]].
Islam [[Islamization of the Sudan region|was brought]] to [[Sudan]] from Egypt during the 8th to 11th centuries. The culture of Sudan today depends on the tribe, some have a pure Nubian, [[Beja people|Beja]], or Arabic culture and some have a mixture of Arab and [[Nubian people|Nubian]] elements.<ref>Bechtold, Peter R (1991). "More Turbulence in Sudan" in ''Sudan: State and Society in Crisis''. ed. John Voll ([[Westview Press]] (Boulder)) p. 1.</ref>