Thank you for your response, I appreciate it. I think perhaps partly it is also our definitions of Arabisation. I am going by the definition that Arabisation means adopting Arabic as a first language, and assuming an identity of Arab over the original ethnic identity.
For example, the Copts...
Al-Jazira remained a predominantly Aramaic-speaking, Assyrian Christian populated region up until the slaughter committed by Timur in the late 14th century. Following this, the region was gradually overrun by Arabs from the south and Kurds from the east/south-east.
As with all historical...
iirc most Irish people were loyal to the British until the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1920.
If you mean you don't want any dissidence at all (or a very low amount), then you'd probably have to go back to the Battle of the Boyne and have the Irish treated as equals to the Presbyterian and...
Yes, this is correct. We are only independent Islamic nation with shi'e majority along with Iraq. North Azerbaijan are most irreligion, but culturally also shi'i.
You are student of Sunni and Shi'e (and Ibadi, Sufi?) or just Sunni?
I meant no disrespect dost, I just thought it was a big assertion! I will take your word for it that you are well informed in the faith. May I ask, are you Sunni?
I doubt anyone would actually be offended by this, I personally am not at all, and I also doubt that anyone who would be will come across your work, and if they did I further more doubt they would do anything in response to it.
The type of people you're worrying about don't tend to frequent...
You didn't even word it badly. Some people just want to find offense in everything.
Quite frankly, even if you did mean it in a more offensive way, I don't see how it'd be any different to using a demeaning tone when talking about the Soviet Union's process of Russification of minorities, the...
Hard to say, but I'm going to go with a no, at least for the time being.
Yemen was not yet Arabised prior to the spread of Islam, and still spoke a related but now extinct South Semitic language, probably somewhat similar to modern Soqotri or Mehri. It also had a large Jewish and Christian...
Woah calm down, I'm pretty sure he just meant it in a light-hearted and simplified way. I'm Middle Eastern myself (Iranian) and I didn't see it as having any offensive intention behind it.
I'm pretty sure he's just referring to the huge decline of native peoples that occurred over the last...
There is already a consensus developing here that the Arab conquests are somehow inevitable/hard to avoid.
Given whatever circumstances may occur from the POD onward, there's no reason to assume the Arabs will unify at all to lead an invasion, or even more so that they should be successful in...
I put this in before 1900 because I feel this would probably require quite a relatively early POD, perhaps the late 1800s, perhaps earlier.
What would be needed to prevent the rise of secularism/decline of religiousity and Church attendance seen in Europe over the last century?
I'm...
I'd love to help out with this by providing information relating to Iran (my area of best knowledge, being my homeland), and anything else I can help with also of course.
The immediate effects in relation to Iran:
1. The Sassanian Empire will still be standing, initially at least, though...
Well just because the Copts didn't doesn't mean they couldn't - after all, that is what AH is all about. I don't really think citizens being disarmed means they can't start an effective revolt, since they can become armed. Why is this any more unlikely than any major peasant revolt in European...