Marsh Arabs
（重定向自Marsh Arab）
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![The interior of an Iraqi mudhif](/Images/godic/202501/26/Iraqi_mudhif_interior0028.jpg")
![Marsh Arabs poling a mashoof](/Images/godic/202501/26/Marsh_Arabs_in_a_mashoof0028.jpg")
The Marsh Arabs (Arabic:عرب الأهوار ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also known as the Maʻdān (Arabic:معدان), are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border.
Comprising members of many different tribes and tribal confederations, such as the Āl Bū Muḥammad, Ferayghāt, Shaghanbah and Banī Lām, the Maʻdān had developed a unique culture centered on the marshes' natural resources. Many of the marshes' inhabitants were displaced when the wetlands were drained during and after the 1991 uprisings in Iraq.