Shu'ubiyya

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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]