How come Iran/Persia never became an Arab/Arabized Nation?

[Aegis DDG]

The people in Mesopotamia and whole the western area until Morocco were arabized after the Muslims conquered Middle East and North Africa.


But the Persians still speak Farsi and Arabs in Persia/Iran number only 1-2 million out of 70 million Parsi, Azeris, Lurs etc ? Despite being practically the first Major power the Caliphate'ul Rashidun had defeated.

 

[Shahin Vatani]

The people in Mesopotamia and whole the western area until Morocco were arabized after the Muslims conquered Middle East and North Africa.


But the Persians still speak Farsi and Arabs in Persia/Iran number only 1-2 million out of 70 million Parsi, Azeris, Lurs etc ? Despite being practically the first Major power the Caliphate'ul Rashidun had defeated.

Why wasn't Iran Arabized? Mainly because of this guy:
Ferdowsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[qamar1990]

Why wasn't Iran Arabized? Mainly because of this guy:
Ferdowsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

who is he?

 

[Aegis DDG]

who is he?

Ferdowsi, famous Play/Peot/Script writer. Wrote the 'Shamenshah'

 

[Shahin Vatani]

Ferdowsi, famous Play/Peot/Script writer. Wrote the 'Shamenshah'

Shahnameh*

 

[Aegis DDG]

He is worth more than 1,000 Shakespeare I heard ... Practically saved Persian literature and Middle Persian and expanded the sophistication of Persian culture

Shahnameh*

I forget how to pronounce it

 

[anonymus]

The same reason as to while Indian subcontinent even after being a colony of British for 90 years is not racially celtic while America is predominantly European..........


Population


The places who have been extensively arabized were lightly populated as compared to Iran.

Also before safavid dynasty, i think Iran was a Sunni majority country.So even no Arabisation assertion could be doubted..........

 

[KingMamba]

The people in Mesopotamia and whole the western area until Morocco were arabized after the Muslims conquered Middle East and North Africa.


But the Persians still speak Farsi and Arabs in Persia/Iran number only 1-2 million out of 70 million Parsi, Azeris, Lurs etc ? Despite being practically the first Major power the Caliphate'ul Rashidun had defeated.

The Arabs did not try to arabize the Persians. They did not even try to convert them because they were making money off of taxes.

 

[somebozo]

Persia has a very strong culture, heritage and language and Arabs have actually plagiarized a lot from Romans, Semites and Persians. There is no way a strong civilization could be become dominated by an inferior one. Hence why Persia never became Arabized while countries like Roman-Arabia and Egypt lost their language due to massive exodus, genocide and suppression - a large part of their culture still survived.

 

[Aegis DDG]

The Arabs did not try to arabize the Persians. They did not even try to convert them because they were making money off of taxes.

I heard it was because it was an Indo-European speaking culture, thus too difficult to arabize them to the same extend as the Aramaic of Iraq/Levent, the Berbers of N.Africa and the Copts of Egypt, which speaks an Afro-Asiatic Language like Arabic.

 

[somebozo]

The Arabs did not try to arabize the Persians. They did not even try to convert them because they were making money off of taxes.

Conversions were discouraged as they resulted in loss of revenues..so much for Jihad to spread islam or rather Jihad to loot plunder kill r@ape and orgy! What were khalifas thinking anyways?

 

[Hack-Hook]

200 year before ferdowsi it was Rudaki who start the movement.

but it was not just this , they started the movement of reviving Persian literature , but even in time of rudaki after 200 year arab could not change the language of the people of the street

 

[INDIC]

Proud communities always have strong affinity to their culture.

 

[anonymus]

Persia has a very strong culture, heritage and language and Arabs have actually plagiarized a lot from Romans, Semites and Persians. There is no way a strong civilization could be become dominated by an inferior one. Hence why Persia never became Arabized while countries like Roman-Arabia and Egypt lost their language due to massive exodus, genocide and suppression - a large part of their culture still survived.

But then how would you explain countless examples where a superior civilization fall victim to inferior albeit militarily stronger one.

An example would be destruction of IVC by invading Aryans.

 

[Aegis DDG]

Persia has a very strong culture, heritage and language and Arabs have actually plagiarized a lot from Romans, Semites and Persians. There is no way a strong civilization could be become dominated by an inferior one. Hence why Persia never became Arabized while countries like Roman-Arabia and Egypt lost their language due to massive exodus, genocide and suppression - a large part of their culture still survived.

I am aware the Arab Plagiarized a lot from the Byzantine Empire, esp in Architectural technology (i.e. Most Mosque are built in Byzantine Fashion) and copied Sassanian construction materials and the infamous minirates and domes. I guess Persians were too proud to fully renounce their Iranian Identity but accept Islam.