Suppose Vikings invade and set up a polity in 9th Century North Africa - linguistic implications?

There are Arab mentionings of tea from the 1st millennium CE, but I don`t know if they actually consumed it or just knew that Asians did.
That´s why I mentioned infusions, there are many ways to create safe beverages which don´t involve alcohol.
 
I'm pretty sure that in historic Muslim states, people drank a lot more alcohol than we might think despite Islam's prohibitions. I'm pretty sure the existence of "Shiraz" for one of the most important wine varietals nowadays implies that Islam didn't kill Persian wine production. It seems akin to the Christians nowadays who oppose drinking alcohol (and drink non-alcoholic grape juice for communion) but believe Jesus drank wine (and of course turned water into wine--actual wine, not the grape juice some Christian groups believe, and these are all evangelical groups I'm describing) because that was the only safe drink available in his day, it was just far less ABV than wine is nowadays. Not to mention the many, many examples of Islamic leaders being known for alcohol consumption--Ottoman ruler Selim II aka "Selim the Sot" is only one example.
 
Wait... wouldn't the Arabs have the same problem? Or did they drink coffee all the time?

As I already said, the Arabs didn't have this problem since they also drank alcohol.

The "prohibit it all" theology only became really popular in recent times as one of many moves to reform Islam in the 19th Century.

As far as I understand it, most Muslims for most of history would not have thought drinking "small beer" and its equivalents were in any way "bad" and would have thought the odd drink of harder stuff was OK too. From what I've read of pre-19th century Muslim primary sources, binge drinking has usually been seen as an issue by the more devout Muslims, but shock horror, lots of people were binge drinkers anyway.

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Wait... wouldn't the Arabs have the same problem? Or did they drink coffee all the time?

Not to the same degree, for one thing faeces and urine dry out faster in a hotter and dryer climate, so bacteria and parasites in it have a greater chance to die before they spread to a water sources.
 
Tea originates in East Asia - did they have it already at Mohammed's time?

There's tea and there's "tea". When we talk about tea we're usual talk about the tea we import from China, but tea in a historical context was a whole range of dried plants boiled in water, usual for their health reason, one of the more well known today is the chamomile. So it's quite likely that Arabs drank dried leaves boiled in water, before tea was introduced to them.
 
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