persian origin it is a remarkable fact that with few exceptions most muslim scholars in the intellectual sciences have been non arabs thus the founders of grammar were sibawaih and after him al farsi and az zajjaj all of them were of persian descent and they inven ted rules of arabic grammar great jurists were persians only the persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works ibn khaldun if learning were suspended in the highest parts of heaven the persians would attain it the persians ruled for a thousand years and did not need us arabs even for a day we have been ruling them for one or two centuries and cannot do without them for an hour abbasid caliphate there is no such thing as pan arab peoples because how can egyptians and babylonians who predated the 'arabian people' be marginalized under one group of people egyptians and mesopotamians were established civilization thousands of years before arabs secondly how can you deny the influence persian iranians had on the 'islamic golden age' and the scientific advancements made especially in regards to archictecture literature arab grammar philosophy agricultural practices economics etc to be fair its unjust that muslims arabs take most of the credit for the achievements made during that era when more than half of the scientists scholars intellectuals were of persian iranian origin mplicity claims muslims as arabs ditc