Jreisat, Jamil E. (2006). «The Arab World». Journal of Asian and African Studies. 5-6 (engelsk). 41: 411–437. ISSN0021-9096. doi:10.1177/0021909606067406. Besøkt 23. april 2020. «The Arab world consists of 22 countries, extending over North Africa and Southwest Asia. These ountries are joined as a League of Arab States connected by numerous bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements and conventions. Whereas these countries vary in size, type of government, and endowment of natural resources, they share many attributes that unify them such as language, religion, history, culture, and common aspirations.»
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Hogarth, David G. (April 1929). «The Arab World Today». Foreign Affairs(engelsk). ISSN0015-7120. Besøkt 23. april 2020. «HE Arab world is the world that speaks Arabic. Language is its one satisfactory test, and a much better one than the territorial. It is true that a continuous and fairly well defined area of the earth's surface contains all the Arabic-speaking peoples (except voluntary exiles living in Java, America, East Africa and other foreign regions); but the same area includes too many speakers of other tongues -- of Turkish, for example, or Kurdish or Armenian or Hebrew or Berber or some European language -- whose non-Arab speech invariably goes with lack of conscious community with Arabs and even with contempt or hostility.»
Jreisat, Jamil E. (2006). «The Arab World». Journal of Asian and African Studies. 5-6 (engelsk). 41: 411–437. ISSN0021-9096. doi:10.1177/0021909606067406. Besøkt 23. april 2020. «The Arab world consists of 22 countries, extending over North Africa and Southwest Asia. These ountries are joined as a League of Arab States connected by numerous bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements and conventions. Whereas these countries vary in size, type of government, and endowment of natural resources, they share many attributes that unify them such as language, religion, history, culture, and common aspirations.»
Hogarth, David G. (April 1929). «The Arab World Today». Foreign Affairs(engelsk). ISSN0015-7120. Besøkt 23. april 2020. «HE Arab world is the world that speaks Arabic. Language is its one satisfactory test, and a much better one than the territorial. It is true that a continuous and fairly well defined area of the earth's surface contains all the Arabic-speaking peoples (except voluntary exiles living in Java, America, East Africa and other foreign regions); but the same area includes too many speakers of other tongues -- of Turkish, for example, or Kurdish or Armenian or Hebrew or Berber or some European language -- whose non-Arab speech invariably goes with lack of conscious community with Arabs and even with contempt or hostility.»