What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“It was the Arabisation of the conquered provinces rather than their military conquest that is the true wonder of the Arab expansion. By the eleventh century Arabic had become not only the chief idiom of everyday use from Persia to the Pyrenees, but also the chief instrument of culture, superseding old culture languages like Coptic, Aramaic, Greek and Latin.”
Bernard Lewis
1916–2018
British-American historian of the Middle East (London, Princeton).
In Arabic
إِنَّ تَعْرِيبَ الأَقَالِيمِ المَفْتُوحَةِ، لَا فَتْحَهَا العَسْكَرِيَّ، هُوَ الأُعْجُوبَةُ الحَقَّةُ فِي التَّوَسُّعِ العَرَبِيِّ. فَبِحُلُولِ القَرْنِ الحَادِي عَشَرَ لَمْ تَعُدِ العَرَبِيَّةُ اللِّسَانَ الغَالِبَ فِي الاِسْتِعْمَالِ اليَوْمِيِّ مِنْ فَارِسَ إِلَى جِبَالِ البَرَانِسِ فَحَسْبُ، بَلْ صَارَتْ كَذَلِكَ الأَدَاةَ الأُولَى لِلثَّقَافِةِ، وَحَلَّتْ مَحَلَّ لُغَاتِ الثَّقَافَةِ القَدِيمَةِ كَالقُبْطِيَّةِ وَالآرَامِيَّةِ وَاليُونَانِيَّةِ وَاللَّاتِينِيَّة.
Source
The Arabs in History, ch. VII, London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1954, p. 132
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