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According to Matthew Paris, King John offered to convert to Islam to the Moroccan Sultan for an alliance against France. This likely didn’t happen, but what if it did? I expect he’d be overthrown quickly

In January 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini wrote an open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev. In the letter, Khomeini applauded Gorbachev for recognising the need for reform within the USSR and for supposedly seeing the ways that Marxism was insufficient as an ideology. However, he warned that, the way...

I've recently been researching the Nation of Islam and other similar groups and I got curious; what if the Klan formed an organization/organized in a manner similar to the Nation of Islam? When could that happen, what would it's beliefs and theology be, what about it's rituals and practices...

Timur's reign is largely considered to have been quite detrimental to Ottoman expansion and the survival of the Golden Horde and Delhi Sultanates. What would some of the outcomes have been had he not come to power?

I've been working on a map series for the last month or so. I was very inspired by @KillEmAll1989 's excellent Gothic Empire timeline, which I personally think is the best timeline ive read in a bit. Overall the main POD was originally a semi-surviving Carthaginian Empire, but I realized a...

What are the odds that Islam - Sunni, Shi'a, whatever - could develop a more firmly centralized structure of its faith, including its clergy? It seems that the prerequisite concepts, particularly the caliphate, were already there, but it just never happened. Is there something inherent to Islam...

So, context. A lot people are familiar with the Order of Assassins, or Hashashins (Probably mostly from Assassin's Creed). However, what some people might be unaware of is that the Hashasins were actually an independent theocracy that had a network of castles from Syria to Persia/Iran, that...

Your challenge is to have the Rajput kingdoms in the north-west of India convert to Islam during the Middle Ages. In OTL, the Rajputs were amongst the fiercest opposition faced by Muslim rulers trying to conquer the subcontinent. What would India look like if the mighty Rajputs themselves...

The Battle of Ankara almost ended the Ottoman Empire iotl. Iotl, Bayezid I arrived on the battlefield on the 19th, but decided to camp instead of attacking immediately when Timur's army was strung out and could have been defeated piecemeal as advised by Stephan Lazarevic. Let's say Bayezid takes...

On the tin. Is there any rationale or benefit for the Ottoman sultan to willingly transfer the Islamic caliphate itself to another Sunni order or family? Perhaps as a big step in a secularizing/modernizing campaign?

What if the Vijaynagara empire never existed ? what would be its effects on the Delhi Sultanate and Colonialism in India?

Basically a preacher or a prophet takes over an area and his successors embark on a rapid expansion spreading the teachings the teachings of their Prophet or the founder of the religion of their religion along the way . Minimum PoD is 476 AD and maximum is 1600 AD. Edit; Interesting this post...

In my timeline, by the year 1550, the ottoman empire also controls italy and estern iberia since they allied whit Hungary and Venice since both of them fought against expentionist France which now unified and became the Angevin kingdom. I know this lacks context but I was wondering how religion...

I am planning to do a TL where the Umayyads take Constantinople under Mu’awiya . 1. My plan is too have a Islamic Greek speaking State 2. The PoD is under Mu’awyia . now its unknown when the siege actually took place , so i will just invent an ATL siege. 3. The Second Fitna or a parallel will...

The nature of the Islamic/Caliphal conquests and the subsequent social effects as a result are extremely fascinating. The Caliphates of the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasids were unique in a historical context, they where distinctly Arab in character through their culture, customs, ruling elite and...

Muhammed (PBUH) wife, Ayesha, was one of the most prominent figures in early Islam. Considered one of the best scholars of Islamic jurisprudence during her lifetime, Ayesha preached Jumuah sermons in the Prophet's Masjid, led soldiers into battle and enjoyed major political influence in the...

Prologue: The Arab Conquest Of Rum and its aftermath The Arab Conquest of the Ruman Empire or the Rhomaion as the Greeks called it was a landmark event in History in 96 AH* . Within less than century , The Arab Muslims had conquered both the Sassanid Persian and The Rhoman Empire . After...

Inspired by the Vikings TV show (not historically accurate of course), where a character named Floki discovers Islam and is fascinated by it during a raid on Algeciras. He appreciates their devotion to Allah and his amazement at it even brings him to question his own pagan beliefs. What if then...

What would it take for the major Muslim countries, run by Islamist or Islamist-friendly governments, to create a Pan-Islamist bloc that can at least challenge (probably not outright win in a total war, more like win in a proxy war) the other major alliances like the Warsaw Pact/Comintern and...