middle east

Tiglath-Pileser III was an Assyrian king who ascended to the throne at round the middle of the 8th century BCE after usurping it from the previous royal dynasty, effectively creating the Neo-Assyrian Empire that would last for some 150 years. He revitalized the Assyrian state from a declining...

Assuming that the Seljuks do not fall apart (lets say, no battle of Qatwan), how does this effect Egypt and Syria? Let me explain why I'm asking: The Zengids, previously regional rulers within the Seljuk empire, sent an army into Egypt, the leader of this army, Nur Ad-Din took over Egypt, and...

In the late 70's and early 80's, through say 1984, post Camp David accords, how possible would it be for another Arab-Israeli war to occur? If so, what might trigger it? Just as important for my timeline is how likely various nations, especially the USA, Israel, and the USSR would think it is...

Based on an older thread from 2017 that i made. Nader Shah Afshar, founder of the Afsharid Dynasty, was a prominent 18th century Persian historical figure noteworthy for his spectacular military accomplishments, his ruthlessness, and the short life of his empire. His resumé includes beating the...

Iirc, the spread of goats through north africa and the middle east helped to aggravate the desertification proccess. What if domestic americal camellids were brought to replace the roll of goats? Llamas eat grass cutting it, stead of ripping the roots like goats. Their manure is highly fertil...

Is it possible for Iran and Afghanistan to be part of one country after WWII? How can this be possible? Can it stick together? And how does that affect things?

As we know from OTL the actual post WWI Middle East was based on the findings/conclusions of the King-Crane commission ( here is a cool interactive map I found about the original commission: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/622809257200320513?buttonSource=viewLimits), it's not identical to the...

Britain and France backstabbed the arabs in the Sykes-Picot agreement after WW1. The Kingdom of Hejaz, which was a British protectorate of sorts, refused to sign a friendship treaty because of said backstab. Due to this the British didn't intervene when another British Client, the Sauds, invaded...

The breakup of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came after a century of decline which saw it lose vast amounts of territory. But even in 1914, they were still in control of many strategically and symbollically important territories. They had the Strait of Marmara, and therefore the...

Challenge: have a state ran by an Assyrian Christian elite that emerges sometime after the Arab conquests. Bonus points if the Assyrian Christians are able to expand and conquer all of Mesopotamia/Iraq. What would this Assyrian state look like, and would it be able to last for very long?

Pan-Iranism was the ideology that the Iranian peoples (Persian, Pashtun, Baluch, Kurd, etc) should unite to form one nation. Could it been possible for the movement to take off successfully than it did OTL and be able to gain a following in the Iranian countries and territories? And if so...

So, what is the latest possible pod for a united Arab nation? At minimum, this nation has to include Arabia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Sudan. Other territories are allowed, but these are manditory. And assuming this nation formed and stayed stable, here are some questions... How...

What would be the effects of Rome and Iran actually sticking to the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between Justinian and Khusrau (signed in 532)? Perhaps not really sticking to it for Eternity as was originally intended, but at least for a longer period of time? How could this happen? Could the...

I`m working on a Korean Manchuria TL in which one of the effects is that the Liao dynasty is never pushed west by the Jin. This means, from what I've learned, that the Battle of Qatwan never happens, which means the Seljuk Turks remain powerful longer than OTL. This would have quite big...

What if the Arab countries (mainly Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) had managed to beat Israel in the Six Days' War of 1967 and conclude a peace favourable to their interests, instead of losing large territories to Israel? What would they negotiate for? An enlarged and sovereign Palestine, perhaps in...

One of the great victories of the US in the Cold War was their out-manoeuvring of both the British and Soviets for position of pre-eminent power in the Middle East. Combined with American economic and banking power, good diplomacy helped ensure that the US had (and still has) a privileged...

At any point after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, make Kurdistan real.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-iran-espionage/israel-says-indicts-ex-cabinet-minister-over-alleged-spying-for-iran-idUSKBN1JE1I4 Iran seems to confirm that he was their guy. If you can somehow get him to become Prime Minister, how would his policy vis a vis the rest of the Middle...

In the aftermath of world war one the victorious allies decided to devide up the middle east, those who had rebelled in favor of the allies were rewarded with land. One of the countries that was created out of the carcus of the ottoman empire was Kurdistan. Today dispite a checkered history...

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...