One thing I realized about Ummah is that we've never had a diverse society

[noname_]

Correct me if i'm wrong. In the last 1,400 years, everyone still remained largely homogeneous despite when our religion says we are one. We never had a diverse and multi-cultural society like today's West and you can clearly see that in Muslim majority countries where nearly everyone is the same and the rest are complete foreign. Even the most righteous Umayyad didn't seem to diversify when they expanded.

It's only recently in the last 30-50 years that Muslims came in touch with each other through mass migration.

Shouldn't Muslim societies be diverse 100-1000+ years ago? Why are we so homogeneous?

 

[himber23]

Early Muslims conquered everybody and Sahabas met all types of Races, Languages and cultures

 

[Kisame]

Correct me if i'm wrong. In the last 1,400 years, everyone still remained largely homogeneous despite when our religion says we are one. We never had a diverse and multi-cultural society like today's West and you can clearly see that in Muslim majority countries where nearly everyone is the same and the rest are complete foreign. Even the most righteous Umayyad didn't seem to diversify when they expanded.

It's only recently in the last 30-50 years that Muslims came in touch with each other through mass migration.

Shouldn't Muslim societies be diverse 100-1000+ years ago? Why are we so homogeneous?

Rich Gulf nations have small native populations. They can easily get replaced in their own country if they gave a bunch of foreigners citizenship.

Countries with small native populations prioritize taking care of their natives.

 

[noname_]

Early Muslims conquered everybody and Sahabas met all types of Races, Languages and cultures

I didn't mention Rashidun under the Sahabas because it was just the beginning but for the others later on when they were established?

Nothing has changed overtime for the caliphates and ethnic sultanates other than the arabic language. They're all the same. We don't hear or see any diverse places or sizeable chunk of non-native Muslims today that had ancestors settled there centuries ago or whatsoever.

Rich Gulf nations have small native populations. They can easily get replaced in their own country if they gave a bunch of foreigners citizenship.

Countries with small native populations prioritize taking care of their natives.

I'm talking about the past.

 

[World]

I didn't mention Rashidun under the Sahabas because it was just the beginning but for the others later on when they were established?

Nothing has changed overtime for the caliphates and ethnic sultanates other than the arabic language. They're all the same. We don't hear or see any diverse places or sizeable chunk of non-native Muslims today that had ancestors settled there centuries ago or whatsoever.


I'm talking about the past.

You’re looking at the past from a post industrial revolution perspective. People spent their whole life in their small village and didn’t travel because that was how life was back then. Only the elite and rich could afford to travel, and they were a tiny subset of society.