Islam, Arabs, and Culture

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Originally posted by swilhelm73
2) How did Persia manage to absorb Islam, but maintain a seperate culture, unlike say Iraq. I have a suspicion this might relate to Ishmael and the Shiite nature of Persian Islam, but this is just conjecture.

This implies that most islamic countries are arabic. Look at Africa and indonesia. Or the Berbers. Heck, going back, look at the ottomans or al-andalus. Emphatically not the same culture.

 

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Originally posted by swilhelm73
So I was thinking about this topic in general, and it led me to a few questions...

1) Why was Islam able not just to spread as a religion, but also to spread Arabic culture with it? As a counter example, the spread of Christianity was generally not accompanied by the spread of Latin culture.

What do u mean with culture?? Language? Cause the culture u live in right now, I'm guessing the western culture as u have an American flag, was created out of christianity and it's beleif. U can see this in the western countries legal systems, family life and norms (custom rules). Probably it's harder to recognise a thing when u live "in" it. It's easier to put a mark on a thing that's outside our own sphere if u know what I mean. That's why we so "easily" can point out what is typicall of another culture.