OK, so there's a strong (but not universally held) view on the board that Constantinople/Byzantium was just one high-walled capital city too far for the Arabs to seize in the pre-Ummayad, Ummayad or Abbasid era.
I'll just accept that as a given for now.
But what what about the Arabs succeeding at conquering and holding the Anatolian peninsula. Maximally, have the Arabs conquer and hold the entire peninsula, or minimally, they hold at least all the interior that OTL's Seljuk Sultanate of Rum consistently held.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum
Over the long run, would the peninsula have likely become ethnolinguistically Arab? Ethnolinguistically Persian? Could a Graeco-Arabic fusion have developed? Or would the area have still been likely to become ethnically and linguistically Turkic anyway, as slave soldiers are imported and used to beef up frontier defenses in Anatolia. Yet another prospect might be an Anatolia is ethnically more Turkic, Persian and Greek than Arabic, but the dominant language is still Arabic because it becomes locally dominant early on?
I'll just accept that as a given for now.
But what what about the Arabs succeeding at conquering and holding the Anatolian peninsula. Maximally, have the Arabs conquer and hold the entire peninsula, or minimally, they hold at least all the interior that OTL's Seljuk Sultanate of Rum consistently held.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum
Over the long run, would the peninsula have likely become ethnolinguistically Arab? Ethnolinguistically Persian? Could a Graeco-Arabic fusion have developed? Or would the area have still been likely to become ethnically and linguistically Turkic anyway, as slave soldiers are imported and used to beef up frontier defenses in Anatolia. Yet another prospect might be an Anatolia is ethnically more Turkic, Persian and Greek than Arabic, but the dominant language is still Arabic because it becomes locally dominant early on?