Traditional clothing from the Arab world.

[Saif al-Arab]

@Erl

Thank you for your share of the Iranian Arabs of Ahwaz.

May I ask you if you can find similar photos of Iranian Arabs from Southern Iran (Fars Province, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Khamseh etc.) and Khorasan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamseh_Arabs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs_in_Khorasan

Pictures of the Arabic village Khalaf - about 150 km north-east of Birjand - and of its inhabitants.







Their village:

http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/seeger_chorasan_en.html

Ulrich Seeger The Arabic Dialect of Khorasan
In the eastern parts of Iran, in Khorasan on the borders of Afghanistan, there has been an Arab population since the Islamic conquest up to the present day. In summer 1996, I recorded samples of this extraordinary and ancient Arabic dialect on tape.



A report on the fieldwork, some ethnological remarks, first grammatical conclusions and transcribed texts can be found in:



Zwei Texte im Dialekt der Araber von Chorasan

published in

"Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!"
60 Beiträge zur Semitistik - Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag
Hrsg. von Werner Arnold und Hartmut Bobzin
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002
p. 629-646

With the kind permission of Harrassowitz Publishers I am making available an offprint of my article in PDF-format: [Download Article 1 German]

Sarah Dickins and Janet Watson translated this article into English: [Download Article 1 English]



2009 I published another text



Khalaf – Ein arabisches Dorf in Khorasan

published in

Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra
Analecta Semitica In Memoriam Alexander Sima
Hrsg. von Werner Arnold, Michael Jursa, Walter W. Müller, Stephan Procházka
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009
p. 307–317

I also offer this text here for download as PDF: [Download Article 2]



2013 appeared in print



Zum Verhältnis der zentralasiatischen arabischen Dialekte

mit einem bisher unveröffentlichten Text aus Südchorasan

published in

Nicht nur mit Engelszungen
Beiträge zur semitischen Dialektologie
Festschrift für Werner Arnold zum 60. Geburtstag
Hrsg. von Renaud Kuty, Ulrich Seeger und Shabo Talay
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013
p. 313-322

I also offer this text here for download as PDF: [Download Article 3 German]



Sarah Dickins translated this article into English: [Download Article 3 English]



You can listen to the transcribed texts in the Semitic Language Archives SemArch: Text 1 • Text 2 • Text 3

http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/seeger_chorasan_en.html

I think that hardly any Arabs know that there are very old Iranian Arab communities outside of Ahwaz and Southern Iran that still speak distinctive dialects of Arabic despite almost 1400 years having passed and despite living next to Iranians for this long. I think that most of such people have been assimilated to the general population long ago in Khorasan. I read some time ago that this was/is the case with the Arabs of Afghanistan, Caucasus and Central Asia.

 

[Erl]

@Erl

Thank you for your share of the Iranian Arabs of Ahwaz.

Yes, i love Ahwaz.
Meanwhile in Ahwaz city ::

Ahwaz

Traditional clothing Bushehr city ::

 

[Erl]

Traditional coffee ceremony in Ahwaz city ::

Traditional coffee ceremony in Ahwaz city ::

 

[Erl]

Modern and traditional Clothing in Ahwaz&Bushehr cities:

 

[Erl]

Dr. Ahmadinejhad in unity day :: Nice clothing for him you know!

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

No offense @Erl but are you sure that all of those are Iranian Arabs? Some of them don't strike me as Arabs but rather other ethnic groups in Iran such as Baloch or Afro-Iranians. Some of the clothing as well. Your previous posts were more accurate IMO.

















More below:

Oasis Unedited: Mansoojat: The Virtual Museum of #Saudi Arabia's Traditional Costumes > Featured in Oasis Magazine

In KSA basically (traditionally at least) each region and region within the region, city, village, tribe and clan had their own traditional clothing. That equals 100's of distinctive traditional clothing. Such diversity is seen in few places in the world. Let alone Arabia as a whole and the remaining Arab world.

Same story with traditional dances.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

This month the Janadriyah cultural heritage festival took place outside of Riyadh. It is one of the biggest of its kind in the world and visited by millions of people annually. Locals as well as foreigners.

Some photos.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

More photos:

 

[Nilgiri]

@Sargon of Akkad

Great pictures!

Are you still looking to be visiting India sometime soon/in future? I remember we had a long thread about that.

 

[The SC]

Egypt traditional clothing

Bedouin Egypt

Palestinian Traditional Dress

 

[The SC]

Syrian traditional clothing

Kuwait

 

[The SC]

lebanese traditional clothing

Iraq traditional clothing

 

[The SC]

Traditional dress of Jordan

 

[The SC]

Omani traditional clothing

 

[Assaf]

Some of the Omani traditional women dress pattern is essentially influenced by those of India, considering the Maritime legacy of Oman. as it was big player in the Indian ocean.

Nice thread. it shows the overall diversity, and somehow similarity. it have these Eastern-Orientalism touch to it.