arabic

Regardless of whether you believe the Quran is the word of God or not, pronunciation and the use of diacritics were issues early on in the history of Islam. In around 650 AD, the caliph Uthman noticed small differences in pronounciation, as the Rashidun expanded to Mesopotamia, Syria, North...

I know this might not be the most plausible scenario, but what if the Ottomans, when switching from Persian as the official language, decided to go for Arabic instead of Turkish. Would we see an Arabic dialect that borrows heavily from Turkish grow in city centres around Anatolia? Would we see...

What happens if Persian (or rather Farsi) ended up as lingua franca of the Middle-Eastern world, rather than Arabic? Persian is the second lingua franca of the Islamic world, in particular in the eastern region. Aside from serving as the state and administrative language in many Islamic...

How would it have influenced the development of the Ottoman Empire if Arabic was chosen as its official language? I assume here that this would happen during the reign of Selim 1. or his son, Suleiman. How would this affect the linguistic situation in Anatolia? If nationalism developed in...

Historically arabs assimilated many different ethnic groups, especially if they converted to islam. The people of anatolia seem to have been at least religiously and linguistically assimilated multiple times throughout history, most recently by the turks. The ottoman empire at times had a large...

What are some underrated points of divergence from 476 AD to 1176 AD, especially regarding the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates, or the various phases of the Byzantine Empire?