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Muslims are peoples that follow the religion of Islam.
Arab represents the ethnicity of the peoples originally lived in Arabia and now live across the Middle East and North Africa.
It is important to note that only 23% of Muslims are Arabs, but 90% of Arabs are Muslims.
More Complex Answer
Muslims
A person is considered to be Muslim if he testifies that: "there is no God besides Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger, servant and prophet of Allah."
There are a varieties of sects and schools in Islam such as Sunnis, Shiites, Ibadis, and marginal or heretical sects.
Muslims are followers of the religion of Islam. There are many Muslims who are not Arabs - there are Muslim Indonesians, Muslim Chinese, and Muslim Americans. The vast majority of Muslims (over 75%) are not Arabs and many more of them are South Asians (like Pakistanis, Indians, and Bengalis).
Arabs
Arabs are people of the Middle East that are united by a common language: Arabic, and a common history: the Islamic Caliphates. Arabs are not necessarily of the same ethnic stock and in many cases are of mixed heritage due to intermarriage between the Arabs coming up from the Arabian Peninsula and indigenous Semites and Berbers. Not all Arabs are Muslim, but all Arabs have (in their history) spent time under an Islamic government. Arabs follow different religions; most are Muslims, but some are also Christians, Jews, Druze, Baha'i, Yazidi, and Zoroastrian.
Someone can be called Arab when his nationality is from an Arab country or when his parents are Arabs (from the Arab countries).
Therefore, you can divide "Arab" by the nationalities of these countries.
There are "Saudi Arabs", "Yemeni Arabs", and "Moroccan Arabs", etc.
Arab culture and language may be classified as Afro-Asiatic. Arabs mainly occupy lands in the Middle East, N. Africa & E. Africa, as well as the E. Mediterranean and parts of SW Asia. Islam originated in Arabia, so naturally many Arabs are Muslim, but not all.
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Why do Arabs and Muslims hate each other?
Arabs and Muslims do not hate each other. Most Arabs are Muslims.
What do Muslims and Arabs have in common?
Arabs are people who live on or very close to the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle Eastern area between Europe and Africa. Muslims are followers of Islam, a religion that began in the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, most Arabs are Muslim, because that is the primary religion in that area, but less than a quarter of Muslims are Arabs due to the large population of South Asian, Persian, and Indonesian Muslims. Some Arabs have other religions, and many Muslims live elsewhere in the world. Arab=Race Muslim=Religion
What is the Arabs religoin?
93% of the Arabs are Muslims and 7% is largely Christianity.
What type of Muslims are Arabs?
Islam was founded in the cities of Mecca and Medina, in what is now Saudi Arabia. Thus the early followers of Islam were Arabs, and the Quran was revealed in Arabic. However, not all Arabs are Muslims, just as not all Muslims are Arabs. Arabs only make a small part of the Muslim population. A great many Muslims come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Russia, Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Albania, North Africa & Eastern Europe.
What kind of Arabs are found in Israel?
Israel has a number of different types of Arabs, including: Arab Urban Muslims, Arab Christians, Bedouin Muslims, Druze Arabs, and Baha'i.
