Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani
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Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani
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Abū Thābit Sulaymān ibn Saʿd al-Khūshani was an Arab administrator of the Umayyad Caliphate who proposed and implemented the conversion of Syria's dīwān from Greek to Arabic in 700 under Caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). From the time of the Muslim conquest of the region from the Byzantine Empire in the 630s, Greek had remained the language of the bureaucracy in Syria and the change in 700 formed part of the wider centralization efforts undertaken by Abd al-Malik. In recognition of this achievem
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Late 7th/early 8th century Umayyad Caliphate administrator
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2023-08-22T04:15:04Z
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