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The Arabs of India

The Arabs of India, numbering approximately 62,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a diverse ethnolinguistic group whose identity is shaped by a combination of language, culture, history, and geography. Arabs are native to the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of Africa. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Standard Arabic is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Arab Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: Arab, Arabian
Primary Language(s): Standard Arabic (arb)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 62,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG041734

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

70%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Standard Arabic
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Arabic, Standard Speakers

Media Resources in Standard Arabic:

Films:
Title Link
JESUS View Film
JESUS View Film
Magdalena View Film
Magdalena View Film
The Savior View Film
The Savior View Film

6 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Standard Arabic:

Bible Name (Translation) Video Audio Text
Easy to Read Version ✓ ✓
Good News Version ✓
Sharif (Iraqi) Version ✓ ✓ ✓
Sharif Version ✓ ✓ ✓
Standard Arabic (Gulf) ✓
Van Dyke Version - multi voice ✓ ✓ ✓
Van Dyke Version - single voice ✓ ✓ ✓

7 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Standard Arabic bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Arabs:
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Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
Begin gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Pray specifically for the Arabs of India

For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
readPsalm 18:31

As people look to their own efforts for hope, pray they will have the opportunity to learn and believe in the Lord, who is the only Rock worthy of their faith.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
readPsalm 16:11

Pray that God will make a way for His path of life to be revealed to many so that they may come into His presence and experience abundant joy and eternal pleasures at His right hand.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
readDeuteronomy 6:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hide God's Word in their hearts, let it shape their conversations and daily lives, and pass on their faith to the next generation.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Arab Across Countries (ROP3 - 100425) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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23 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▼ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Arabs PG017321 Arabs Argentina 1,580,000 Engaged yet Unreached Spanish Sunni Islam
Arabs PG014900 Arabs Tanzania 509,000 Engaged yet Unreached Swahili (individual language) Sunni Islam
Arabs PG016532 Arabs Brazil 492,000 Engaged yet Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG006321 Arabs Pakistan 248,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG007830 Arabs Australia 162,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG000004 Arabs Austria 101,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG000078 Arabs Denmark 96,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG000580 Arabs Switzerland 75,500 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG041734 Arabs India 62,500 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG014761 Arabs Kenya 57,000 Engaged yet Unreached Swahili (individual language) Sunni Islam
Arabs PG047072 Arabs Greece 34,500 Engaged yet Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG014477 Arabs Congo, Democratic Republic of the 32,500 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG018465 Arabs Malaysia 18,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG015486 Arabs South Africa 16,000 No Longer Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG011545 Arabs Ethiopia 13,500 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG000374 Arabs Malta 10,000 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG018478 Arabs New Zealand 10,000 No Longer Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG014463 Arabs Burundi 3,800 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG013266 Arabs Ghana 3,300 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG016383 Arabs Jamaica 2,100 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG015270 Arabs Comoros 900 Engaged yet Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG042248 Arabs Maldives 750 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam
Arabs PG016194 Arabs Barbados 150 Unengaged and Unreached Standard Arabic Sunni Islam

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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