Semitic topics

Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called a Semiticist or a Semitist, both terms being equivalent.

The Hadhrami (Arabic: حضرمي‎, sing.) or Hadharem (plural: الحضارم) are people inhabiting the Hadhramaut region in Yemen and their descendants in diaspora communities around the world. They speak Hadhrami Arabic an Arabic dialect with a heavy Hadramite Substrate, which belongs to the South Semitic languages.

The Marsh Arabs (Arabic: عرب الأهوار‎ ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان‎ "dweller in the plains") or shroog (Arabic: شروگ‎, "those from the east")—the latter two often considered derogatory in the present day—are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq as well as in the Hoveyzieh marshes of Southwest Iran.

Semites, Semitic peoples or Semitic cultures (from the biblical "Shem", Hebrew: שם‎) was a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group who speak or spoke the Semitic languages.

An Arabist is someone normally from outside the Arab world who specialises in the study of the Arabic language and culture (usually including Arabic literature).

The Nabataeans, also Nabateans (Arabic: ٱلْأَنْبَاط‎ al-ʾAnbāṭ , compare Ancient Greek: Ναβαταῖος; Latin: Nabataeus), were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. Their settlements—most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu (present-day Petra, Jordan)—gave the name Nabatene to the Arabian borderland that stretched from the Euphrates to the Red Sea.

The Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة‎, Syriac: ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ‎) are a Christian group whose members adhere to the Syriac Maronite Church with the largest population around Mount Lebanon in Lebanon. The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church which is in full communion with the Pope and the Catholic Church, with the right of self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, one of more than a dozen individual churches which are in full communion with the Holy See.

Mizrahi Jews (Hebrew: יהודי המִזְרָח‎; Arabic:يهود مزراحي) or Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים; ), also referred to as Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי), Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת-הַמִּזְרָח; "Communities of the East"; Mizrahi Hebrew: ʿEdot(h) Ha(m)Mizraḥ), or Oriental Jews, is a term transferred to the descendants of the Jewish communities that had existed in the Middle East and North Africa from biblical times into the modern era. Originally, the term "Mizrahi" was the Hebrew translation of Eastern European Jews' German name: "Ostjuden", as seen in The Mizrahi Movement, Bank Mizrahi and in HaPoel HaMizrahi; in the 1950s the Jews who came from the communities listed above were simply called and known as: "Jews" ("Yahud" in Arabic) and in order to distinguish them in the Jewish sub-ethnicities, the Israeli officials - who themselves were mostly Ostjuden - had transferred the name to them (even as the surname "Mizrachi" which was coined to them by the immigration clerks, despite having other surnames prior; which is also the most desired surname to be changed by Israelis), even though most of them arrived from lands located further Westwards than even Central Europe - which was not to these Oriental Jews' likings. Many scholars claim that the transferring of the name "Mizrahim" and "Orientalism" towards the Oriental Jews was the same derogatory act that the Westjuden had done to the Ostjuden, labeling them as "second class" and remoting them from possible positions of power.

The Hyksos (Egyptian ḥqꜣ(w)-ḫꜣswt, Egyptological pronunciation: heqa khasut, "ruler(s) of foreign lands"; Ancient Greek: Ὑκσώς, Ὑξώς) were a people of diverse origins, possibly from Western Asia, who settled in the eastern Nile Delta some time before 1650 BC. The arrival of the Hyksos led to the end of the Thirteenth Dynasty and initiated the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. In the context of Ancient Egypt, the term "Asiatic" refers to people native to areas east of Egypt.

Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Hebrew: יהודי תימן Yehudei Teman; Arabic: اليهود اليمنيون‎) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen. The term may also refer to the descendants of the Yemenite Jewish community. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet. After several waves of persecution throughout Yemen, most Yemenite Jews now live in Israel, while smaller communities live in the United States and elsewhere. Only a handful remain in Yemen. The few remaining Jews experience intense, and at times violent, anti-Semitism on a daily basis.