AWST-115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: The Twelve Imams, Arab Christians, World Music
8 Jan 2019
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Title: ethnic and religious minorities (ch. 2), cambridge companion to modern arab culture. Chapter 2 discussed the role minority groups in arab nations played in arab culture, especially these past few decades. Ithe chapter honed in on minorities" contributions to politics, literature, music, and movies. The chapter also discusses the historical vulnerabilities of ethnic and religious minorities in the region, the challenges they face at present, as well as their prospects for the future. Arab culture a culture defined by ethnicity and usually associated with sunni islam. Ethnic and religious minorities refers to an indigenous population that does not identify. The largest non-arab ethnicities in the arab world are armenian, imazighen (berber), as arab or sunni muslim. Kurd, and nubian; and there are also a number of smaller ethno-linguistic groups, especially in sudan. Shiite muslims are the largest religious minority in the arab world. Most arab shiites are twelvers, so they recognize the twelve imams (descendents of the.
