Baharna

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The Bahārna (Arabic: بُحارنة, romanized: Buharnah; or Arabic: بَحارنه, romanized: Baharneh), are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs from the historical region of Bahrain. Generally regarded by scholars as the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia, most Bahraini citizens are Baharna. They inhabited the region before the arrival of the Banu Utbah, from which the Bahraini royal family descends, in the 18th century. Outside contemporary Bahrain, Baharna populations are found throughout Eastern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatif, and al-Ahsa). There are also significant populations in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Iraq (specifically Najaf and Karbala), as well as Khorramshahr and Hormozgan province in Iran. Additionally, some have migrated to Eastern Africa (Zanzibar in particular), Europe and America as well.