islam

Essentially, what components would a religion arising from Judaism have if it was founded on male-female twins as its source? Whether as prophets or messiahs or whatnot.

How do you make Shias 87-90% of the Muslim population, while Sunnis are 10-13%? Bonus points if you have traditional Sunni strongholds (Arabia, North Africa, Indonesia etc.) become Shia and traditional Shia strongholds (Iran, parts of Yemen and Iraq) be Sunni.

"In Ayannid-era hagiographical works of Seerah and modern academic treatments of the Prophet’s life alike, there is a tendency to relegate the Ghazwah of Mut’ah to a role of utter insignificance. This has mostly been due to fact that the confrontation at Mut’ah didn't result in any lasting...

A POD that I think is underused is: what if the orthodox Muslims eventually won the Ridda wars, but only after so long and brutal a struggle that the Arab military expansion machine and unified polity permanently fell apart? It would leave a recognizable Islam (plus possibly a small remnant of...

Assuming a Pakistan-wank of sorts happens (perhaps more Pakistani victories in their wars against India), could the country end up fostering an alliance with, or perhaps even annexing, the Maldives? Or is there another PoD for this to happen, such as during the partition of British India?

I'm not sure if the thread title is self-explanatory, so here goes my question: how well did Islam integrate with Asian (western, southern and eastern) religions. I'm aware about Akbar the Great's proposed syncretism between Islam and Hinduism, but that's an "up-down" and arguably artificial...

WI: What if an independant Kashmiri state was created in 1947, along India and Pakistan? Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_conflict http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/opinion/independence-for-kashmir-could-have-advantages-for-india.html...

Was it possible to recreate the Islamic Caliphate led by the Iranians? It can be Sunni or Shiite or any other sect. Perhaps, the ruling dynasties are Persianized. Tho' it can be difficult, given the fact there're majority Arabs and most likely opposed the Persian caliphate. There're fewer...

By Indochina I am referring to Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. How could Islam and Christianity, religions practiced by countries which had trade relations in the former case and took some of Indochina in the latter case, gain a major foothold in Indochina? How could a sizable part...

So if the Japanese win ww2, I was wondering about how they'd treat the fact the majority of Indonesians were Muslims. My question is, how would the Shinto Buddhist Japanese empire treat the Islamic Indonesians if they win?

After the Iranian revolution, Iran turned into an Islamist nation bent off radical thoughts. The Ayatollah had a lot of people executed. Whenever you have a revolution recently, you have to have a lot of superstition, and paranoia to keep what you dream of alive. Now Zoroastrianism used to be...

B. R. Ambedkar was a Dalit (Untouchable) rights activist, who in the 1930s was convinced that Hinduism was not the right religion for Dalits and it was one of the main reasons Dalits were put in deplorable conditions. In 1935 he met with Christian, Muslim (Ambedkar would later speak out against...

Is it plausible for the National of Islam to collapse, leading to a mass conversion to Sunni Islam? And if so, how could it occur?

Makkah 14th of Januarius 10 A.P.R. ( Anno Post Revelationem ) A skeleton of man lay crumpled on the sands of the harsh Arabian desert still desperately clinging to life. The man's tormentors jeered at his pitiful state. One of them a man who was named Omar bent down as if to help the man up...

In 869, the Zanj revolt began as a regional conflict and minor slave revolt led by a mysterious figure named Ali ibn Muhammad al-Dibaj in the region of al-Sawad (far southern Iraq). Beginning with a small group of supporters from Eastern Arabia and another small group from his days in Baghdad...

With a POD after 661 CE, come up with a scenario where Egypt is majority Muslim but largely speaks the Coptic language (akin to how Persia is Muslim but retained it's language and culture). Bonus points if the Egyptians use the Coptic alphabet (instead of a modified form of Arabic script) to...

Let's say that the Isra and Mi'raj describe the Prophet Mohammed traveling to Mount Scopus, rather than the Temple Mount. It clearly describes him enjoying a nice view of the Holy City before ascending into heaven. After the Muslims conquer Jerusalem, they build the Haram-esh-Sharif on Mount...

Isfahan, 1715 Iranian History is dominated by tales of the “Rusul-u-Muluk”, or Prophets and Princes. From Zoroaster to Cyrus the Great, heroic figures bringing revelation or the sword have not only shaped the history of the Iranian people, but have inspired folk-stories and literature focusing...

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...

First point, is it generally agreed that preventing the rise of Islam* would lead to significantly less demand for slaves over the next millenia or so, specifically from Eastern Europe and East (and Central?) Africa? If so, then what would be the dmographic and geopolitical changes to those...