Question 12. The followers and non-followers of Ali were called (a) Arabs and Iranians (b) Shias and Sunnis (c) Umayyads and Abbasids (d) Byzantines and Sasanids Answer
(b) Shias and Sunnis.ʿAbd al-Malik implemented a broad program of Arabization, making Arabic the official language of administration, creating an Arabized class of administrators, and creating Arabic coinage for the empire