Shu'ubiyya

Shu'ubiyya (Arabic: الشعوبية) was a social, cultural, literary, and political movement within the Muslim world that sought to oppose the privileged status of Arabs and the Arabization of non-Arab civilizations amidst the early Muslim conquests, particularly under the Umayyad Caliphate. The vast majority of the Shu'ubis were Persian. It was first seriously studied by Hungarian scholar Ignaz Goldziher in the first volume of his work Muslim Studies.