Arabic is one of the very few languages in history to have been adopted by millions of non-native speakers. What made it (a) desirable and (b) possible for many non-Arabs to acquire the language in the early Abbasid period?

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“Arabic is one of the very few languages in history to have been adopted by millions of non-native speakers. What made it (a) desirable and (b) possible for many non-Arabs to acquire the language in the early Abbasid period? How would you compare these features of Arabic with those of present-day English?”