abbasid caliphate

What if, after seizing power in Iran and the Arab world, the Buyids and Famitids began a campaign of forced conversion against the public ? In an effort to alter the demographic landscape such that Shia Islam would eventually overtake Sunni Islam as the predominant religion in the Middle East...

Following their rise to power in Iran in the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty initiated a campaign of forced conversion against the Iranian populace, seeking to create a new demographic environment in which Shia Islam would replace Sunni Islam as the nation's religious majority. Over the course...

After centuries of decline and subjugation at the hands of foreign powers like the Buyids and the Seljuk Turks, the Abbasid Caliphate took advantage of the latter's decline in the 12th century to reassert its independence, forming a state in what is now Iraq. This resurgence came to an end...

I was reading some old post from @John7755 يوحنا were he discussed the recovery of the Abbasids in the post Seljuk era and how they might have succeeded in beating back Hulagu and his army the PoD is a different and far more competent Caliph al Musta'sim that take the Mongol threats...

First of all, how could such a thing happen and when exactly? (Most probably occurring in cordoba or Bagdad) Secondly, how would it spread and what sectors would it immediately affect? (Will the spread of industrialization be slow or crazy fast in the Islamic world?) Finally, what would be its...

Something I always wondered is if the Umayyad caliphate wom this battle during the Abbasid revolution would it have pushed back and united the caliphate or would the Abbasid just keep their holding east of the zagros if so how does an extremely early problem of the two caliphates evolve how does...

During the time of the Third Fitna and the decades before and after, there were a few notable Ali-id revolts attempting to replace the Umayyad and Abbasid califs. An example was the revolt by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 762. My question is, with a POD as far back as the beginning of the 8th...

On the pretext of departing on a hunting expedition, Caliph al-Mu'tamid, sidelined by his brother al-Muwaffaq in politics, departed from Samarra for Tulunid Egypt where the amir Ahmad Ibn Tulun, intending to use the opportunity to coalesce authority in Egypt and to gain the merit of being the...

As you may know i was doing the TL The Sands of Purple before I discontinued it after writing only 1 chapter. Now I came across This Thread which supposes that the Abbasids destroy the ERE in 806 . Now My Plan is to have an Islamic Greece , be it in Anatolia , Thrace or Greece Itself Under the...

Al-Mutawakkil was the Abbasid caliph until his assassination at the hands of his Turkish bodyguards in 861 A.D.. Said assassination led to the period of turmoil and coups known as the Anarchy at Samarra, which was directly responsible for the rise of the Saffarid dynasty in Persia and the...

This an interesting pod I have not seen Harun al-Rashid invaded Anatolia in 782 . With great success , how ever he pushes to far and his position was precarious, as the defeat of al-Rabi threatened his lines of communications So Harun turned his army back,but during his march along the...

When the Muslims exploded out of Arabia, they did not stop at fighting their immediate foes, the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires. Rather, they continued beyond them, conquering lands from Iberia to India. But when the Umayyads and later the Abbasids attack the region of Central Asia known as...

How successful could the Zanj Rebellion realistically have been?

The Fourth Fitna was a devastating civil war that broke out very shortly after the death of Caliph Harun-al-Rashid, that lasted from 811-819, with local provincial rebellions taking advantage of the crisis lasting in some form to the 830s. It set the stage for the further decline of the...

The Zanj Rebellion was a huge uprising organized by African slaves (called Zanj by the Arabs) who had had enough of working in the horrible conditions of the sugar plantations of Ahvaz and Lower Mesopotamia. It lasted fourteen years (869-883 AD) and although the rebels were defeated, the...

Abd-ar-Rahman was originally an Ummayad prince who was around 20 when the Abbasids took Damascus, and subsequently slaughtered 80 members of the Ummayad family at a feast in Abu-Futrus, but Abd-ar-Rahman managed to escape. Eventually he had to cross the Euphrates, where Abbasid troops caught up...

How likely would it have been for the Abbasid Caliphate to ally with the Bulgars?

Despite lasting only nine years, the Anarchy at Samarra severely damaged the Abbasid Caliphate's central government, and led to rebellious and secessionist tendencies in the provinces. What if this period hadn't happened?

Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Caliph, ruled during the zenith of the Islamic Golden Age, and played a major role in turning Baghdad into one of the great centers of learning and commerce. In 802, he decided to divide his vast empire between three of his sons: al-Amin, al-Ma'mun, and...

What if the Zanj Rebellion had succeeded in overthrowing the Abbasid Caliphate? Could a Zanj polity have lasted?