The vocabulary being used on twitter and some dingy websites has now entered mainstream television.
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Dome shaped minarets are basically a replica of Byzantine Architecture which the Ottomans copied.
The languages like Arabic, Persian were developed by the Indigenous Arabic tribals and Zoroastrians. And the grammatical structure of Urdu is again from Khadi boli. And the vocabulary has so many words modified from Sanskrit, Persian etc.
Don't know what this so called journalist is claiming.
not byzantine. The persians. Particularly the Sassanian architecture. That is literally the gumbaz + minaret architecture we see in the ruins of ctesiphon and a few sites in iranian plateau.
This is also openly acknowledged in abbasid sources - where the abbasids both lament and praise the fact that the Persians are the diplomats, administrators,architects and general 'intelligensia' of the empire, with the arabs being the muscle and devotion to allah.
The fall of the abbasids is seen as the sack of baghdad under Hulegu Khan, but thats just the final nail in the coffin. Reality is, the Abbasids were severely declined for about 200 years before Hulegu showed up, because Abbasids started the ghulaam culture once they conquered Khorasan & started the ghulaami of turkis- who turns out are helluva lot more warlike and competent at war than the arabs ( cold desert people are hardier than hot desert people coz cold desert people are in hell 24/7, even in winter while hot desert people actually get to have some ez time in their winter period).
And the slow demise of the abbasids began, because within a couple of generations, the proliferation of the ghulaams meant that the 'power' on ground transitioned from the hands of the arabs to turks - no longer is the Caliph's main concern being 'how to keep the various tribes of arabs - banu this banu that happy and focussed on conquest, now its keep this turki ghulaam base happy'.
And soon enough the first of the ghulaams effectively broke away and made pretty much their own fiefs and started entities like the Samanids, Saffarids, etc - basically emirates made out of ghulaams and freebooters who paid nominal allegiance to the khalif but did their own conquering and infighting - some even directly fought the khalif, like the Saffarids did.
But anyways, i digress. The point is, what we see as 'muslim architecture' is 100% Sassanian Farsi architecture. yes,it has developed over the millenia a lot,any endavour would -be it art, architecture or engineering.
but the basic format of 'hall with onion dome at top and not hemispheric circle ( that would be more roman) +tower with pointy cone top = Sassanian architecture, including the layout of 'hall with dome surrounded on 4 corners with towers' that is the design 101 of mosques.
We have a lot of iranian influence on the Romans through the ages through contact - this we know for sure, since Roman cults that proliferated immediately before christianity included several eastern religions/sects getting cultified including mithraism coming from zoroastrian sect of mitraists.
There is also some architectural and culinary influences ( you for eg find roman cookbooks with recipes such as parthian chicken, which uses eastern ingredients and some native only to the iranian plateau) going from the Iranians to the Romans.
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