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The largest religious group in the Levant are [[Muslim]]s, most of whom identify as [[Arabs]] and speak [[Levantine Arabic]], a dialect of Arabic descended from [[Hejazi Arabic]] and pre-Islamic Arabic dialects of Syria, with muchsignificant influence from [[Western Middle Aramaic]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Retsö |first1=Jan |title="Aramaic in Levantine Dialects" in "Aramaic/Syriac Loanwords" |website=Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics |publisher=Brill Reference Online |access-date=7 February 2024 |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics|quote=The Arabic spoken in Syria and Mesopotamia has replaced Aramaic dialects there and it can be assumed that a bilingual situation existed for a long time and that numerous Aramaic lexemes found their way into Arabic during this period. The presence of Aramaic lexemes is well studied in Lebanese Arabic (Féghali 1918; Freyha 1973) and the dialects spoken in the Anti-Lebanon (Arnold and Behnstedt 1993) but can be found in dictionaries from the entire Syro-Palestinian area (cf. Barbot 1961). The material collected by Féghali and Freyha shows that, unlike in the ʿarabiyya, most borrowings preserve the Aramaic phonology… The Aramaic vocabulary is likely to be the largest foreign element in the Arabic lexicon even if the exact extent is difficult to define.}}</ref> According to recent [[ancient DNA]] studies, Levantines derive most of their ancestry from [[ancient Semitic-speaking peoples]] of the [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and [[Iron Age|Iron]] age Levant, displaying significant substantial continuity.<ref name="Haber">{{cite journal |title=A Genetic History of the Near East from an aDNA Time Course Sampling Eight Points in the Past 4,000 Years |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |year=2020 |doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.05.008|last1=Haber |first1=Marc |last2=Nassar |first2=Joyce |last3=Almarri |first3=Mohamed A. |last4=Saupe |first4=Tina |last5=Saag |first5=Lehti |last6=Griffith |first6=Samuel J. |last7=Doumet-Serhal |first7=Claude |last8=Chanteau |first8=Julien |last9=Saghieh-Beydoun |first9=Muntaha |last10=Xue |first10=Yali |last11=Scheib |first11=Christiana L. |last12=Tyler-Smith |first12=Chris |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=149–157 |pmid=32470374 |pmc=7332655 }}</ref> Other Arabs include the [[Bedouins]] of [[Syrian Desert]], Naqab and [[Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|eastern Syria]], who speak [[Bedouin Arabic]]. Non-Arab minorities include [[Circassians]], [[Chechens]], [[Turkic peoples|Turks]], [[Jews]], [[Turkmens]], [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]], [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], [[Nawar people|Nawars]] and [[Armenians]].
 
The [[Muslim conquest of the Levant]] in the 7th century introduced [[Islam]] into the region,<ref>{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Hugh N. |author-link=Hugh N. Kennedy |date=2007 |title=The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In |url=https://archive.org/details/greatarabconques00kenn_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=Da Capo Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatarabconques00kenn_0/page/376 376] |isbn=978-0-306-81728-1}}</ref> but the bulk of the population in Syria and [[Upper Mesopotamia|upper Mesopotamia]] remained Christian until the 13th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lapidus |first=Ira M. |author-link=Ira M. Lapidus |date=13 October 2014 |orig-year=1988 |title=A History of Islamic Societies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFJNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 |edition=3rd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=70 |isbn=978-0-521-51430-9}}</ref> The majority of Levantine Muslims are [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]s adhering to the four [[Madhhab|madhhabs]] ([[Hanafi school|Hanafi]], [[Shafi'i school|Shafi'i]], [[Hanbali school|Hanbali]] and [[Maliki school|Maliki]]). Islamic minorities include the [[Alawites|Alawite]]s and [[Nizari Isma'ilism|Nizari Ismaili]]s in Syria, and [[Lebanese Shia Muslims|Twelver Shiites]] in [[Lebanon]].
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