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As someone of Jewish heritage and a history major who's studied the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I've always wondered what would happen if there were no plans for a state of Israel located in Palestine and the Jews could not end up there. Kind of a follow-up/opposite side of the...

The idea of the challenge is fairly simple - with a POD(s) anytime after the founding of Islam, have Europe become majority Muslim while Africa becomes majority Christian. To be more specific - the area of Europe i'm referring to should include at least areas OTL known as Italy, Spain, France...

Ramadan 742 ( February 1342) Sarai, Khanate of the Golden horde sigh of relief Tini Beg was tensed the entire night, not knowing whether the harbingers of death will bring him good news. Perhaps Allah knows what's best and he should quit being a scaredy-cat. This morning he'll finally see the...

Let's keep the point of divergence simple: imagine a world where Muhammad had simply never been born. In such a scenario, what religion is most likely to be the most significant competitor to Christianity in terms of number of followers by the year 2021? Said religion does not have to garner...

What is the latest possible date at which Persia can reasonably become a Christian majority nation? Or is this scenario just implausible to begin with?

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...

What will be the consequence of the Middle East being divided between the Ottoman (with them only holding Anatolia in the Middle East but still the Balkan) the Mamluks (with Egypt the levant and the Hejaz) and the Safavids with their OTL lands + Mesopotamia and possibly them managing to keep...

Regardless of whether you believe the Quran is the word of God or not, pronunciation and the use of diacritics were issues early on in the history of Islam. In around 650 AD, the caliph Uthman noticed small differences in pronounciation, as the Rashidun expanded to Mesopotamia, Syria, North...

The idea have been inspired by some older thread but what if the Fatimids instead of conquering and settling Egypt in 969 remained in Ifriqiyia and thrower they’re ressource at controlling southern Italy Mediterranean island and try conquer central Italy (essentially doing a reverse Norman...

Your challenge is to have the Ghana Empire go Christian and the Kingdom of Kongo go Muslim, rather than the other way around as OTL.

Your challenge is to have at least one Muslim country establish at least one colony in the New World. It doesn't have to be very successful or last very long, it just has to exist for a time.

The vandal kingdom is a rather intriguing part of history to me. An Arian Christian state in north Africa, centered around Rome's old enemy city of Carthage, it met its end due to a loss to then-Christian Berbers that prompted a revolt against religious freedom being given to Trinitarians and...

I’ve been thinking lately at the idea of Moroccan colony in the new world and how make it possibles i think multiple PoDs are needed a strong empire unifying the Sahel creating a monopoly and with enough military force to dissuade Morocco to trie to conquer and hold it . While give incentive...

Tzachas Bey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzachas a Turkic Muslim hellenophile warlord having for ambition to become Roman emperor and take Constantinople for this purpose he built a fleet wich woul achieve some success and allied the Pecheneg a at least partially Muslim Turkish tribe wich...

Say, in an alternate timeline that a figure analogous to Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab emerges in the Ottoman Empire sometime in the 19th century. This supposed figure focuses his rhetoric against minority sects and religions, pinning the blame on them for the failings of the Empire and he also...

First off, this question is obviously a little controversial, but let's please keep the discussion civil How plausible is the concept of an Islamic extremist ideology arising that holds 'progressive' values towards science and civil rights, and promotes the idea of a welfare state, while also...

So, what if fundamentalism/puritanism (Wahhabism and the like) wasn't a mainstream form of Islam?

How much land could the Almohad realistically take with a big victory at Las navas de los Tolosa i have seen a lot of scenario were that lead to a semi Re-Reconquista were the vast majority of the peninsula end in Muslim control (wich seem a little improbable to me since Leon didn’t participated...

The Muslim settlement of Lucera (Lucaera Saracenorum or Lugêrah in Arabic) was a settlement created by Frederick II Hohenstaufen of Sicilian Muslim after their revolt in Sicily Frederick II started around 1220 expelling the Muslim from Sicily after failed revolt and afraid of them being too...

The prohibition of alcohol in Islam was very significant in the spread of the religion, and influenced the culture of the peoples who converted to it. Despite this, there were several times when this law was blatantly violated, the feast where most of the Ummayads were killed contained large...