Baharna
Indigenous Shia Muslim inhabitants of the Gulf / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Bahrainis.
The Bahārna (Arabic: بحارنة) are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs indigenous to the historical region of Bahrain. They are generally regarded to be the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia.[1] They inhabited the area even before the arrival of the Banu Utbah in the 18th century which the Bahraini royal family descends from.[2] Most Bahraini citizens are Baharna. Regions with most of the population are in Eastern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatif, al-Ahsa), with significant populations in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, and Hormozgan province of Iran.[3][4]
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Bahrain, Qatif, Al-Hasa | |
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Arabic (Bahrani Arabic, Gulf Arabic) | |
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Shia Islam |
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