Editing Arabs (section)

==== Central, South, East and Southeast Asia ====
{{main||Arabs in India|Arab Indonesians|Iranian Arabs|Arabs in Khorasan|Ahwazi Arabs|Arabs in Japan|Arab Malaysians||Arabs in the Philippines|Arab Singaporeans|Sri Lankan Moors}}

According to the ''History of Ibn Khaldun'', the Arabs that were once in [[Central Asia]] have been either killed or have fled the Tatar invasion of the region.<ref name="Khaldun2">History of Ibn Khaldun</ref> However, today many people in Central Asia identify as Arabs. Most [[Central Asian Arabic|Arabs of Central Asia]] are fully integrated into local populations, and sometimes call themselves the same as locals (for example, [[Tājik people|Tajiks]], [[Uzbeks]]) but they use special titles to show their Arab origin such as [[Sayyid]], [[Khoja (Turkestan)|Khoja]] or [[Siddiqui]].<ref name="Owensp1842">Arabic As a Minority Language By Jonathan Owens, pg. 184</ref>

[[File:Ketchimalai_Mosque-_Beruwala,_Sri_Lanka.jpg|thumb|The mosque is built at the spot where the first Arab traders landed and subsequently settled in the area.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jayawardena, Dulip|date=13 March 2018|title=Communal violence and political instability in Sri Lanka|newspaper=[[The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)|The Daily Mirror]]|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Communal-violence-and-political-instability-in-Sri-Lanka--147158.html|access-date=20 May 2020}}</ref>]]
There are only two communities in India which claim Arab descent, the [[Chaush]] of the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] region and the [[Arab (Gujarat)|Chavuse]] of [[Gujarat]].<ref>People of India: Vol. XIII: Andhra Pradesh (3 Parts-Set)Edited by D.L. Prasada Rao, N.V.K. Rao and S. Yaseen Saheb, Affiliated East-West Press</ref><ref>People of India: Volume XXII: Gujarat (3 Parts-Set): Edited by R.B. Lal, P.B.S.V. Padmanabham, Gopal Krishan and Md. Azeez Mohidden, Popular Prakashan for ASI, 2003.</ref> These groups are largely descended from [[Hadhrami people|Hadhrami]] migrants who settled in these two regions in the 18th century. However, neither community still speaks Arabic, although the Chaush have seen re-immigration to [[Eastern Arabia]] and thus a re-adoption of Arabic.<ref>Muslim society in transition Javed, Arifa Kulsoom {{ISBN|8171690963}}</ref> In [[South Asia]], where Arab ancestry is considered prestigious, some communities have origin myths that claim Arab ancestry. Several communities following the [[Shafiʽi school|Shafi'i madhab]] (in contrast to other [[Islam in South Asia|South Asian Muslims]] who follow the [[Hanafi|Hanafi madhab]]) claim descent from Arab traders like the [[Konkani Muslims]] of the [[Konkan|Konkan region]], the [[Mappilla]] of [[Kerala]], and the [[Labbai]] and [[Marakkar]] of [[Tamil Nadu]] and a few Christian groups in India that claim and have Arab roots are situated in the state of [[Kerala]].<ref>Frontiers of embedded Muslim communities in India / editor, Vinod K. Jairath {{ISBN|978-0415668880}}</ref> South Asian [[Iraqi Biradari|Iraqi biradri]] may have records of their ancestors who migrated from Iraq in historical documents. The [[Sri Lankan Moors]] are the third largest ethnic group in [[Sri Lanka]], constituting 9.2% of the country's total population.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A2 : Population by ethnic group according to districts, 2012|url=http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/CPH2011/index.php?fileName=pop42&gp=Activities&tpl=3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428063924/http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/CPH2011/index.php?fileName=pop42&gp=Activities&tpl=3|archive-date=28 April 2017|access-date=19 December 2016|website=Census of Population & Housing, 2011|publisher=Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka}}</ref> Some sources trace the ancestry of the Sri Lankan [[Moors]] to Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka at some time between the 8th and 15th centuries.<ref name="TheSundayTimes2">{{Cite web|title=Race in Sri Lanka What Genetic evidence tells us|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/140126/plus/race-in-sri-lanka-what-genetic-evidence-tells-us-80911.html|access-date=20 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="Anthropos2">{{Cite journal|last=de Munck|first=Victor|year=2005|title=Islamic Orthodoxy and Sufism in Sri Lanka|journal=Anthropos|volume=100|issue=2|pages=401–414 [403]|doi=10.5771/0257-9774-2005-2-401|jstor=40466546}}</ref><ref name="Islamic Studies2">{{Cite journal|last=Mahroof|first=M.M.M.|year=1995|title=Spoken Tamil Dialects of the Muslims of Sri Lanka: Language As Identity-Classifier|journal=Islamic Studies|volume=34|issue=4|pages=407–426 [408]|jstor=20836916}}</ref> There are about 118,866 [[Arab-Indonesians]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shahab|first=Alwi|date=21 January 1996|title=Komunitas Arab Di Pekojan Dan Krukut: Dari Mayoritas Menjadi Minoritas|url=http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/01/21/0012.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809013353/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/01/21/0012.html|archive-date=9 August 2008|access-date=19 April 2015|language=id}}</ref> of [[Hadhrami people|Hadrami]] descent in the 2010 Indonesian census.<ref>{{cite book|author=Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M Sairi Hasbullah, Nur Budi Handayani, Agus Pramono|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crKfCgAAQBAJ|title=Demography of Indonesia's Ethnicity (Table 4.38 The 145 Ethnic Groups: Indonesia, 2010)|publisher=[[Institute of Southeast Asian Studies]]|date=2015|isbn=978-9814519878|access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>