jihad

What if the Fulani religious leader Usman dan Fodio's jihad campaign against the Bornu empire in the 1800's had ultimately failed, preventing the rise of the Sokoto Caliphate? Could Bornu's weakening as a power player in West Africa not happen? What about the other, earlier-estabilished Fulani...

I made a previous thread about this, but I wanted to try again, and I kind of wanted to make a timeline about this after my Russian Ethiopia timeline, but here's the idea. In 1914, at the start of the war, Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, launched a Jihad against the allies. This was...

On November 14, Sultan Mehmed V declared a Jihad against Britan, France, Russia, and the Ententes Muslim subjects to rise up against their rulers in the name of Islam. It was the last time a figure with the authority to delcare Jihad did. It was releatively useless, and only a few actually took...

When is the earliest a German-Ottoman alliance could be founded ever? And at what points could it have happened? I'm most interested to see if there was a possibility for an alliance at the time of Otto Von Bismark, and Abdul Hamid II's reign.

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...

First, a clarification -- what I mean by "Islamization" is the recent rise (as in, post 1975) of legally imposed Sharia Law in countries with Muslim majority populations across the world (eg Pakistan in the late 70's). As a non-Muslim (kufr) myself, and a non-expert by all means, I would like to...

On November 14, 1914, the Ottoman government issued a call to Jihad on behalf of Sultan-Caliph Mehmed V. The summons exhorted the Muslim subjects of the Entente empires to rise up against these powers in defense of Islam and in support of the Ottoman Caliphate. However, this call to Jihad...