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Merchant leaders, landowners, and wealthy merchants - because they controlled trade and held the greatest power.

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Answer:

The groups that held the greatest power in Muslim Society were:

Merchant Leaders, Landowners, and wealthy merchants.

Explanation:

Muslim or Islamic society was a very complex society due to their ideology and religion. Therefore there are different levels of respect, acknowledgment, and social recognition. But even though many actors can have respect for different means, three groups held the most economical, and influential power in the Islamic society. the merchant leaders, or in other words the most influential and rich merchants among the merchants. The big Landowners, in other words, people with a great number of real state and properties, and the wealthy merchants. But why two types of merchants? well apart from being popular wealth has always been a factor of influence in Muslim/Islamic societies. Because they were a war-oriented society that formed clans, and settlements with the means of war potential and very often hired armies of mercenaries. Thus, wealthy merchants could oppose a big difference even if they were not leaders and had popularity.