Editing Arabization (section)

===Eastern and Northern Arabia===
{{Further|Eastern Arabia|Bahrani people|Dilmun civilization}}
[[File:WLA_metmuseum_Sword_and_scabbard_Iran_7th_century.jpg|thumb|Sassanian weaponry, 7th century]]

[[Pre-Islamic Arabia|Before the 7th century]] [[Common Era|CE]], the population of Eastern Arabia consisted of [[Arab Christians|Christian Arabs]], [[Zoroastrian]] Arabs, [[Mizrahi Jews|Jews]], and [[Aramaic]]-speaking agriculturalists.<ref name="orig">{{cite web|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7942/1/7942_4940.PDF?+UkUDh:CyT|title=Social and political change in Bahrain since the First World War|pages=46–47|work=[[Durham University]]|year=1973}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJLjAKH7-rIC&pg=PR24|title=Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary|work=Clive Holes|year=2001|pages=XXIV-XXVI|isbn=978-90-04-10763-2|last1=Holes|first1=Clive|publisher=BRILL }}</ref><ref name="om">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8glrgh87kEC&pg=PA305|title=Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language And Literature|work=J R Smart|year=2013|page=305|isbn=978-0-7007-0411-8|last1=Smart |first1=J. R. |publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Va6oSxzojzoC&pg=PA98|title=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 5|work= M. Th. Houtsma|page=98|year=1993|isbn=978-90-04-09791-9|last1=Houtsma|first1=M. Th|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> Some sedentary dialects of Eastern Arabia exhibit [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] and [[Syriac language|Syriac]] features.<ref name="per">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJLjAKH7-rIC&pg=PR29|title=Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary|work=Clive Holes|year=2001|pages=XXIX-XXX|isbn=978-90-04-10763-2|last1=Holes|first1=Clive|publisher=BRILL }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uhvUA428fcC&pg=PA269|title=Non-Arabic Semitic elements in the Arabic dialects of Eastern Arabia|work=Clive Holes|pages=270–279|year=2002|isbn=978-3-447-04491-2|last1=Jastrow|first1=Otto|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag }}</ref> The sedentary people of ancient Bahrain were Aramaic speakers and to some degree Persian speakers, while Syriac functioned as a [[liturgical language]].<ref name="om"/>

Even within Northern Arabia, Arabization occurred to non-Arab populations such as the [[Hutaym]] in the northwestern Arabia and the [[Solluba]] in the Syrian Desert and the region of Mosul.<ref name="Levinson314">{{Harvnb|Levinson|1995|p=314}}</ref>