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Performance Performance. Persians speak Iranian languages and dialects. Arabs trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of tribes of Arabia from the Syrian Desert and Arabian Peninsula. Persians live in Iran and their neighbors are to the East Pakistan and Afghanistan and to Turkey in the west. Persians are a part of the Iranian inhabitants. After Arab invasion in Islam did eventually displace the native Zoroastrian religion, however, the Persians held onto their identity through their language, literature and arts which are discussed in in detail other parts of the website.
The confusion between the two ethnicities seems to arise from their shared religion of Islam. Islam is not a nation, nor is it an ethnic group. It is solely a religion. The cause of this division are said to happen after the prophet Muhammad the original leader of Islam passed away in The first group of followers is called the Sunni, and the second group is Shia.
Nowadays the official religion of Iran is Shia, but Sunni is practice in a few places. Most Persians , including most Iranians, practice Shia branch of Islam! Most Shias today live in Iran , Pakistan, India, and Iraq, and they adhere to Twelve Shiism — the belief that twelve imams, appointed divinely, descended from Ali. Zoroastrian Persians that refused to convert to Islam, fled to India. Persians , because of their background and Zoroastrian past developed a different culture from Arab counterpart.
Persians do a lot of Islamic rituals differently! Even though the main religion in Iran is the Shia Islam, there are a few smaller religious groups:.
For example the Sunni Islam is the religion undertaken by the Kurdish in the west, the Turkmens, and the Arabs in the southern part of Iran. Persian Culture. Even though Arabs invaded Persia Iran and had to change their religion, Iranian kept most of their Zoroastrian tradition and ceremonies and still celebrates them.
At the time of Arabs ruling Persia , Persians now had to choose whether they wanted to accept a new culture, change their language to Arabic and religion to Islam. Persian did everything to maintain their language when Egypt and other countries from north of Africa started to speak Arabic. Persians actually pride themselves that they fought to remain as Persians , not Arabs.
Yalda Night also known as Shab-e Chelleh is one of the most ancient Persian festivals celebrated by Iranians which marks the longest night of the year. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan. Ramadan is a holy month in which Muslims fast. It is celebrated by Muslims all over the world. On that day in history in the Islamic lunar calendar, Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Yathrib now Medina as they were fighting native Pagans.
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