Shu'ubiyya

Shu'ubiyya (Arabic: الشعوبية) was a literary-political movement which opposed the privileged status of Arabs within the Muslim community and the Arabization campaigns particularly by the Ummayads.[1] The vast majority of the Shu'ubis were Persian.[2][3] The movement was first seriously studied by Ignaz Goldziher (d. 1921) in the first volume of his work Muslim Studies.[4]

  1. ^ Enderwitz 1997, p. 513.
  2. ^ Enderwitz 1997, p. 514.
  3. ^ Savant 2013, pp. 51–52.
  4. ^ Larsson 2005.