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A '''Maslawi''' is a person who is from the city of [[Mosul]], [[Iraq]]. A Maslawi does not indicate ones ethnicity, religion or religious sector, as a maslawi can either be an [[Arab]], [[Kurd]], [[Iraqi Turkmen|Turkoman]] or [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] (although, most Kurds of Mosul prefer not to be grouped under the term maslawi). |
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Maslawi as a term is also used to show the affiliation of any person, object, concept to Mosul city. |
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Maslawis have also their own accent of the [[Iraqi Arabic]] dialect (the [[North Mesopotamian Arabic|North Mesopotamian or Maslawi dialect]]). It puts more emphases on "gh" and replace "r", in some words. This dialect is considered to be similar to the [[Syrian Arabic]] and this can be explained by the short distance between Mosul and some of the major [[Syria]]n cities. |
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Maslawi people are usually presumed to be Sunni Arab since the majority of people in Mosul (i.e. Maslawis) are [[Arabs]] who are [[Sunni Muslims]]. Even though a Maslawi can be [[Shia]] [[Arab]], [[Arab Christian]], [[Assyrian Christian]], [[Sunni]] [[Kurd]], [[Iraqi Turkmen|Turkoman]] or of any other religious and ethnic background. |
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The Christian community of Mosul was prior to the [[Iraq War]] the second largest Christian community of all Iraqi cities after [[Baghdad]], with such small dominance as [[Syriac Catholic Church]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church]], [[Greek Orthodox]] and [[Chaldean Catholic]] in addition to the large community of the [[Assyrian church of the East]]. Most of the and [[Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people|Assyrians/Chaldeans]] live in the villages near to Mosul or other Northern areas (see [[list of Assyrian villages]]) and Arab Christians live in center of Mosul. |
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The [[Muslim]] majority of Maslawis are considered religious, as prayer chants from [[Mosques]] can be heard in the streets of Mosul throughout the week. Sunni Arabs (Arabs who are Muslims and follow the Sunni branch of Islam) are in between moderate religious and far right religious. Maslawis of non-Muslim religious backgrounds tend to be less religious when being compared with the rest of Iraq, but are not close to the secularism of the people of [[Turkey]]. However, [[Kurds]] (Sunni Muslims of Kurdish ethnic background) tend to be the least religious, [[Assyrian Christians]] of Mosul also tend to be less religious when being compared with the rest of the Assyrian population of Iraq. |
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There used to be [[Jewish]] Maslawis as well, that resided in Mosul all the way up to 1950s. Almost all of the Jewish quarter of Mosul emigrated to either [[Israel]] or the [[U.S.]]. |
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Recent years have shown a distinction of 2 types of Maslawis, the original group of Maslawis who come from families with a long history of being in Mosul that goes many centuries back in history, and other Maslawis who migrated to the city in the last decades from rural and sub-urban areas mainly around the city. |
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Maslawis in Diaspora tend to form a tight and close community with each other, and they usually make a harmonized unity despite their religious and ethnic backgrounds, as the love for their city of origin unites them. |
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==Famous Maslawis== |
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* [[Kazem al-Saher]], music artist |
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* [[Hawar Mulla Mohammed]], football player |
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* [[Salih Jaber]], football player |
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* [[Tariq Aziz]], Deputy Prime Minister 1979-2003 (from [[Tel Keppe]]) |
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* [[Jamil al-Midfai]], Prime Minister |
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* [[Ghazi Yawar]], President 2004-2005 |
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==References== |
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* [[Harry Luke (author)|Harry Luke]], ''Mosul and its minorities'' (2004) ISBN 159333107X |
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* [[Suleiman Saigh]], ''History of the Iraqi city of Mosul'' (2008) ISBN 1593335237 |
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[[Category:People from Mosul| ]] |
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[[Category:Iraqi society]] |
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[[ar:مصلاوي]] |
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