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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...

Would it be possible for Copts to rebel against their Muslims overlords some time after their conquest? What would be the last possible date for it to happen? As far as I know, after the century of Arab rule, they didn't even dream about such scenario. Who would lead the rebellion? Personally, I...

In the crisis of the 850s-870s in the Abbasid throne, a new wave of threats came upon the Abbasid court at once. Some old and some new. In the northern section of Iraq, the Khawarij rebels of al-Musawir looted across the region an army and state built upon banditry and religious revolution...

In the Middle Ages, Vikings, Arabs, and Byzantines alike developed wide trade networks across Eurasia, expanded spheres of influence, conquered land from each other if only briefly, and all influenced each other in surprising ways. The challenge is to combine all three groups into one state. A...

How could Ottomans fail to conquer Egypt? Giving their clear strategical superiority in early XVIth century, I suppose that it means we may need an earlier PoD but it would be best IMO if we consider one that take place after the conquest of Constantinople. I think we may have some...

The 800s and 900s saw great fluctuations in Viking, Rus, Abbasid, Bulgarian, and Byzantine power. If all the factors manage to align--the Abbasids avoid or recover from the Anarchy at Samarra, while the Byzantines fall into an iconoclastic chaos--could the Byzantine Empire collapse due to...

So, since Crusader Kings 2 : Jade Dragon has been announced, I figured I'd start the threads that will be inspired by that. One of the major features is the idea of a Chinese Governorate of the West. I wonder if starting with the Tang, whether or not a series of Expansionist Emperors could...

IOTL, Mardavij was a persian warlord who belonged to the Ziyarid Dynasty. He, surprisingly, was a zoroastrian, despite the fact that Persia had been under muslim control for 280 years before his reign. Mardavij was known for his conquests in the persian heartland, taking control of cities such...

What if Basil I the Macedonian, after defeating the Paulicians, launched an overland invasion of the Abbasid Caliphate while the Abbasids were distracted with the Zanj Rebellion?