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Of course, there would be the pretty obvious drastic butterflies, including: -No depreciation of the gold in Arabian and European markets -Mali Empire would still have a crazy amount of gold with their hold etc. But how would this affect Marco Polo's voyage to China? How would this create less...

When and how can we insert a strong Berber cultural, political, and religious component into Al-Andalus, after its conquest by Islamic forces? Perhaps through a more successful spread of the Berber Revolt of the 740's into Iberia? What would be the effects of a less Arab, more Berber Al-Andalus...

How islamic could africa get before europeans parcel the continent? What pods would you use and what long term concequences would we see?

"Why post 1900? With a medieval pod it would be easy." Thats why is a challenge. Have a great majority of africa be muslim.

Give concrete images of a overwhelmingly mayority Afrika with maybe spots of local christianity like the ethiopian highlands of the catholic Kongo Kingdom but the large mayority muslim and the christian spots few and far apart. How could this be posible? Would they be more connected to north...

Such as the development of Christianity (if it arises)? Would Christianity keep the "Old" Testament? Would there be an Old Testament (as we know it)? There's the potential differences in Islam as well. If no Islam, then any "Crusade"-like activities would likely be against the Jews. That's for...

Seeing how Turkish and Iranian cultures have often melted and while they are unique and distinct they share many elements, I wonder, had Iran remained Sunni, might it take a Sufi turn? For one, I think it would evolve similarly to the Turkish influences, for two, Persians might change it more...

Create as many shia countries as historically posible with as many alive branches and sects as posible without making shiism the hegemonical branch.

To begin with a short disclaimer, the origins of the Mamluk or Ghilman soldiers that would come to dominate the Islamic world, is shrouded in some ambiguity. In a similar mode to crucifixion in the Roman world, chroniclers often neglect to describe certain intricacies that are interesting to the...

How could arab Sicily survive the meddle ages and maybe even to the modern times? What sort of butterflies would this set in europe and the arab world?

Prologue: "World history may have gone a different direction, had major empires not formed , or were their founders prevented form doing so due to premature death. Had Ashoka, Alexander the Great, Caesar or Genghis Khan deceased before they were mature enough and competent to assume a leadibg...

What would happen if the Ryukyu islands converted to islam or christianity, thanks to muslim or christian merchants? Would Japan still conquer it? Could a separated Ryukyu identity survive japanese assimilation policies?

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have Islam viewed as equivalently "legitimate" in US cultures as Judaism was by 1899. Yes, it is "foreign," and "non-Christian," it isn't even "white." That goes without saying. They're basically "Irish," but what they're not is "black."...

Could Bosnia become muslim majority at any point before ottoman collapse in the balkans? Bonus points if its includes the sandzak.

With any POD, have an Arctic people (Inuit, Chukchi, Sámi, Nenets, Dorset, Yukaghir, etc) be majority Muslim. Settling the Arctic with Muslims from other areas doesn't.

What happens if the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 is successful?

Marathas have always Fascinated me as they were the last Pan Indian empire, and I have always wondered how India would be Under Marathas, thus this is the what if scenario, If Marathas controlled all of India - By the End of the eighteenth century, Marathas control all of South Asia till Kabul...

United India has been my personal most researched Alternate history, I wanted to know how Would it Look, here is the Scenario - Jinnah does not return to India after leaving congress in 1920s. he spends the rest of his life in England, thus the Muslim League does not gain Steam due to not...

How do you get Christianity or Islam to make up 50% or more of the world's population?

All of India becoming Muslim majority is hard, so I've made the challenge easier. My definition of North India includes every Indian state which isn't Telegana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.