Arab Iraq

 ( Historical Regions Of Iraq ) 

Arab Iraq () was a term used to refer to the Arabs-populated region to the west of Persian Iraq. It included Lower Mesopotamia and some desert areas which are geographically connected to the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula without any natural borders.القاموس المحيط للفيروزآبادي، تحقيق الدكتور محمود مسعود أحمد، المكتبة العصرية، صيدا، بيروت، () ص 1021 مراصد الأطلاع على أسماء الأمكنة البقاع - ابن عبد الحق البغدادي The name "Arab Iraq" () was created during the Seljuk Empire era in the 11th-12th centuries, to distinguish it from "Persian Iraq" (). Persian Iraq and Arab Iraq were often referred to as "al-Iraqayn" () meaning "the two Iraqs" collectively. According to Ottoman documents Lugat-i Tarihiyye ve Cografiyye, written in 1894, and Kâmûs-ül Â'lâm, written in 1896, Arab Iraq was located to the southwest of Persian Iraq, east of the Levant, southeast of Al-Jazira, south of Kurdistan, and west of Khuzestan.Ahmet Rifat, Lügât-i Tarihiyye ve Coğrafiyye (Tıpkıbasım- Facsimile), Keygar Neşriyat, Ankara: 2004, c. 6, s. 77. ve ayrıca bkz. Şemseddin Sami, "Kürdistan" Maddesi, Kamusu'l-Alam, 5.cilt, İstanbul, 1896, s.3840'den sadeleştirerek transkripsiyonunu yapan: M. Emin Bozarslan, Serbestî Dergisi, sayı 1, İstanbul, Kasım 1998, s.43-46 Orijinal transkripsiyondan örnek: "Bu itibarla, Memalik-i Osmaniye'de, Musul vilayetinin kısm-ı azamı, yani Dicle’nin solunda bulunan yerleri ve Van ve Bitlis vilayetleriyle Diyarbekir ve Mamuretulaziz vilayetlerinin birer parçası ve Dersim sancağı Kürdistan’dan ma'dud olduğu gibi, İran’da dahi Kürdistan namıyla marûf eyaletle Azerbaycan eyaletinin nısfı, yani cenub-i garbi kısmı Kürdistan’dır." (Şemseddin Sami, "Kürdistan" Maddesi, Kamusu'l-Alam, 5.cilt, İstanbul, 1896, s.3840)