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Revision as of 17:32, 7 July 2008

The Assyrian people have been subject to Islamisation since the 7th century Muslim conquests. Some of them have been fully Arabized, while a small number retains elements of Assyrian ethnic identity:

"A small minority of the Assyrians, around 1%, has converted to Islam, but remains Assyrian in culture and language...The flag of the Muslim Assyrian minority is a vertical tricolor of violet, yellow and green, bearing a white crescent moon and five-pointed star on the upper hoist."[1]

Arabic-speaking Muslims known as Mhalmoye or Mhallami from the Tur Abdin region may originally have been converted from Syriac Orthodoxy to Islam during the sixteenth century.[2] (cf. Hamshenis, Greek Muslims, Pomaks, Torbesh, Gorani). Culture from their pre-Islamic period survived, such as the appearance of the cross otherwise considered to be a decoration based on a flower.[3]

References

  1. ^ Minahan, James (1996). Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements. Greenwood Press, p. 247f.
  2. ^ Kalan Müzik (2003 online). ""Syriac Culture"". Kalan.com. Archived from the original on 2003-09-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ A Fourth Visit to Tur Abdin and SE Turkey Tur Abdin - A Report of a Visit to SE Turkey in May 2001

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