Were there any negative repercussions to the Arab conquests...

Were there any negative repercussions to the Arab conquests? My professor told me it was overall great for the people who already lived there.

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>its great to become second class citizens

I think the people that got the most immediate benefits were the people under Roman rule. At the time taxes were high and religious persecution was common (muh nature of Christ and other ecclesiastical tomfoolery). The Egyptian and Syrians both had different ideas of how to be Christians compared to the Romans. When the Arabs arrived they were very "worship how you want as long as you pay this lower tax than you were paying under Roman rule." However over time the existing Roman and Persian customs and laws were replaced and became more in line with Arab/muslim ones because more people were converting to Islam (less taxes). Once the various religious groups started becoming minorities they were treated much less kindly and the rights for women that were initially present because of Persian and Roman customs were ARAB'D.

Not true whatsoever. No one was second class citizens. Christians and Jews have lived peacefully under Islam for over a thousand years. They were protected citizens. They never offered these privileges in return to Muslims. In fact, most were joyous when the Caliphate expanded into their territory. Compare that to how they have treated Muslims. Christians repaid us for what we did for them with the Crusades, Jews repaid us for what we've done for them by stealing Arab land and creating Israel. It's bullshit.

i know that armenians or persians weren't happy to be conquered. armenians and assyrians had much more freedom under sassanid rule. initially the coptic and syriac monophysites were ok with the arab conquest until they were marginalized and were shoah'd in later centuries. jews enjoyed islamic rule.

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that's what they get for helping the moors conquer Iberia doe

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However, Christians living under Islamic rule have suffered certain legal disadvantages and at times persecution. In the Ottoman Empire, in accordance with the dhimmi system implemented in Muslim countries, they, like all other Christians and also Jews, were accorded certain freedoms. The dhimmi system in the Ottoman Empire was largely based upon the Pact of Umar. The client status established the rights of the non-Muslims to property, livelihood and freedom of worship but they were in essence treated as second-class citizens in the empire and referred to in Turkish as gavours, a pejorative word meaning "infidel" or "unbeliever". The clause of the Pact of Umar which prohibited non-Muslims from building new places of worship was historically imposed on some communities of the Ottoman Empire and ignored in other cases, at discretion of the local authorities. Although there were no laws mandating religious ghettos, this led to non-Muslim communities being clustered around existing houses of worship.

In addition to other legal limitations, Christians were not considered equals to Muslims and several prohibitions were placed on them. Their testimony against Muslims by Christians and Jews was inadmissible in courts of law wherein a Muslim could be punished; this meant that their testimony could only be considered in commercial cases. They were forbidden to carry weapons or ride atop horses and camels. Their houses could not overlook those of Muslims; and their religious practices were severely circumscribed (e.g., the ringing of church bells was strictly forbidden).

many conquered people were enslaved

>jews enjoyed islamic rule.

Uh...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Yemen
>"on account of our sins G-d has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael, who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us.... No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have.... We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear.... We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael.... In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us." - Rambam

Poor Middle Eastern Jews used to send letters to rich European Jewish money lenders describing the torment Arabs put them through for them to send help and rescue them or send money. Lots of people say it was worse in Europe but overall it was much better.

it depends who was in charge of the respective areas at the time really. some caliphs/emirs/governors were more lax while others very harsh

Educated Iranian self-identity is largely based around still being pissed off about it.