Editing Arabic (section)

=== Spread ===
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Arabic spread with the spread of [[Islam]]. Following the [[early Muslim conquests]], Arabic gained vocabulary from [[Middle Persian]] and [[Turkish language|Turkish]].<ref name="The National-2016" /> In the early [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid period]], many [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] terms entered Arabic through translations carried out at [[Baghdad|Baghdad's]] [[House of Wisdom]].<ref name="The National-2016" />

By the 8th century, knowledge of Classical Arabic had become an essential prerequisite for rising into the higher classes throughout the Islamic world, both for Muslims and non-Muslims. For example, [[Maimonides]], the [[Al-Andalus|Andalusi]] Jewish philosopher, authored works in [[Judeo-Arabic dialects|Judeo-Arabic]]—Arabic written in [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew script]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Josef|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YR2jDwAAQBAJ|title=Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth|last2=Robinson|first2=James T.|last3=Shemesh|first3=Yonatan|date=2019-08-15|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-45763-5|language=en}}</ref>