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Arabize
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Ar·ab·ize  (r-bz)
tr.v. Ar·ab·ized, Ar·ab·iz·ing, Ar·ab·iz·es
1. To make Arabic in form, style, or character.
2. To bring under Arab influence or control.

Arab·i·zation (-b-zshn) n.
Translations
arabize [ˈærəbaɪz] VTarabizar


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The new Islamic polity not only allowed Jews and Christians to survive but, following Qur'anic mandate, by and large protected them, and both the Jewish and Christian communities in al-Andalus became thoroughly Arabized within relatively few years of Abd al-Rahman's arrival in Cordoba .
The analysis is meant to explain and encourage a clearer understanding and projection of Sudanese constituencies and national identifications in ethnic, cultural, and political terms rather than any political configuration of Sudanese people as Arabs or Arabized simply because Sudan is a member of the Arab League or even that Arab or Arabized cultures have been remarkably dominant and ruling since the medieval ages.
What started as a conflict between the Arabized, Islamic north and the non-Muslim, African south has become a contest between a fundamentalist Islamic movement that now controls the country's center and a diverse alliance of peoples and political groups that challenge it from all directions.
 
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