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- "Know that God has assigned a leader for you - nomad and city resident, Arab and non-Arab, free or slave, young or old."
– The Hadith of Ghadir Khumm
Mawla is a unique civic of the Abbasid civilization in Civilization VII.
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As the Arab caliphates expanded, they incorporated a wide body of non-Arabs into their collective, most notably Persian. Persian language and culture had a profound impact on many Muslim societies, especially from Mesopotamia eastward. This raises a fundamental question: to what extent are cultures, languages, and other markers of identity separable from religion? The oldest global religions – Judaism, Shinto, and Hinduism – do not focus on conversion. In contrast, the conversion of foreign groups is a key goal of the world’s newer religions of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam.
In the Arab caliphates, the category of “mawla” became a way to incorporate non-Arabs into an Arab-dominated structure. In the Abbasid Caliphate, this especially meant Persians, including the leading general of the Abbasid Revolution, Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani. This tolerance gave the Abbasids a key advantage over their rivals when it came to bringing large numbers of potential allies, subjects, and converts into the fold.
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| Antiquity | Standard | |
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| Exploration | Standard | |
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| Modern | Standard | |
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| 1 Requires DLC | ||
