How come Persia, unlike Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and North

>>3314319
Afroasiatic languages like Aramaic and Berber were close enough to Arabic to make the transition easy. Persia areas spoke Indo-european languages.

>>3314319

They had a long history of independence, and they cleverly converted to a heresy early on, which allowed them to take control over their religion (and with it, their culture).

>>3314384
>early on

>>3314384
shia islam isnt a strictly iranian things, the first shia state is in morroco and the most prominent shia state is the fatimids in egypt. shia islam only truly catches on iran a lot later during rise of savafids in 17th century

>>3314319
>implying those areas were Arabized when to this day Gulf Arabs lack nearly all the elements that define Mediterranean Arab culture
>implying the adoption of Arabic wasn't primarily a method for easier communication across the broader Muslim world and ability to recite prayers

>>3314451
What do gulf Arabs have to do with anything? Muhammad and the Arab expansionist tribes were from hejaz

They're separated by a giant desert, it's like comparing Moscow Russians to Siberian eskimos

Dumbass

>>3314319
Local Arab majorities in garrison towns across the now Arab world, whereas Arab colonists in Iran intermarried and were absorbed as a minority into the majority Iranian culture.

>>3314319
Half of Mesopotamia and small parts of non-Mesopotamian Syria never became Arabized. At least not until WWI.

>>3314560
Oh, and the other parts were only majority Arabized by the end of the original reign.

>>3314335
That doesn't really have anything to do with it though. The Iranians were well entrenched in their homelands in the Iranian plateau, Central and Western Asia and were the main demographic covering most of the sedentary and urbanized settlements and urban centers. So to put it shortly, there were simply millions upon millions of Persians, Sogdians, and other Indo-Iranian people who weren't going to be assimilated or lose their language to a small number of military invaders.

The only major Iranian, in fact, specifically Persian area of the Iranian world that became "Arabized" was what would become central and eastern Iraq, and that took over a thousand years for it to happen.