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It’s the late 7th century in the Umayyad Caliphate and my wife is about to give birth to our first son. My name is Ismail, but we are thinking to name our son Ahmed. Under what conditions and after how long would my friends who have known me my entire life as Ismail start calling me Abu Ahmed?

by /u/LongNectarine in /r/AskHistorians

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