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Also Known As ʿArabī • Arabī • ʿArab • ʿArabiyyah

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Faisal I
Faisal I
king of Iraq
Michel ʿAflaq
Syrian political leader
Abdullah I of Jordan
Abdullah I
king of Jordan
Amin al-Husseini
Amin al-Husseini
Arab nationalist
Jaʿfar al-ʿAskarī
Iraqi statesman
Hussein ibn Ali
king of Hejaz
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Salah al-Din Bitar
Syrian politician
illustration from Kitāb al-aghānī (“The Book of Songs”) by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Muslim scholar
Hishām ibn al-Kalbī
Arab scholar
Ibn Khallikān
Muslim jurist