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How did Persian literature come to be so widely read among Muslim elites after the Arab Conquests reached Iran? The same didn't seem to happen for Greek or Latin literature when the Arab Conquests reached Roman and former Roman lands.

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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