caliph

1st he doesn't ban the hijab in universities & schools but passes laws preventing parents from forcing it on their daughters. 2nd he doesn't ban or puts a less restrictive limit on how many new Mosques & Churches can be built (I heard somewhere that he banned or restricted the amount of new...

Plausibility Check on one of the Caliphates (Abbasid or Ottomans) surviving to the present day as a primarily religious state, similar to the Papal States or the Vatican. Also threw in the possibly of a new Caliphate under the Saudis. Some possible POD's: 1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad, but...

Established in the 19th century, the Senussi are/were a Sufi religious order which eventually formed the ruling dynasty in the Kingdom of Libya. In the first few decades of the 20th century, the order was governed by Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi: What if Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi accepts Atatürk's...

After WW1 and the Turkish war of independence, Mustafa Kemal abolished the Ottoman caliphate. The last caliph, Abdulmejid II, was sent into exile. However, there was a pan-Islamic movement among Muslims in British India at the time called the Khilafat Movement, which sought restore the...

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE READING: I've already done extensive research into how these events leading up to the conquest of Rome would have occurred. It has nothing to do with bias toward Muslims, nor Christians, but based on some very peculiar situations many countries were finding themselves in...

After the Mongols conquered the Abbasid Caliphate, the Mamluks instituted a sort of puppet Caliph in Cairo, ostensibly also of the Abbasid Dynasty. Is there any possibility, after WW1 and the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, that an imperial power of the time could establish, or rather bring...

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In 656, Rashidun caliph Uthman was assassinated by an angry mob of muslim pilgrims invading his house. His death sparked a succession crisis, known as the First Fitna, which briefly interrupted the expansion of the Rashidun caliphate, yet led to the creation of the Umayyad caliphate. But what if...

I'm quite curious as to how successful a relationship between a Christian Monarch and a Caliph would be. We've seen Caliphs subordinate to Turks, Persians, and other rulers - and whilst extreme, in a situation where you have a strong surviving Roman Empire that pushes Islam back, or Crusaders...