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Here is an extremely unlikely scenario that started with a challenge. I was challenged by a friend to come up with an alternate history scenario that creates a nation; the nation is determined by 2 random words from a digital "spin-the-wheel" thingy. The two words I got were "Caliphate" and...

What if Armenia was converted into a Muslim country in the past and persisted as a Muslim nation into the present day? Would the Armenian Genocide still have occurred? How could this have affected history, culture, demographics, languages, international relations, politics, religious matters...

This seems to be one of the potentially most pivotal possible turning points in history. In 716, the Eastern Roman Empire was weakened by the Twenty Year’s Anarchy. The Umayyad Caliph, already overseeing an empire that stretched from Hispania to India, launched an invasion of Asia Minor, and by...

While the Battle of Tours in 732 is seen as a pivotal moment in halting the Muslim expansion into Western Europe, it actually may be overshadowed in importance by the earlier Battle of Toulouse in 721. According to historian Ian Meadows, after the swift conquest of Iberia into the Umayyad...

OTL, In April 744 Yazid iii mentioned he would implement the following policies: Not to build any buildings of stone or brick, nor to dig any canals. (Referring to palaces and private gardens) Not to hoard wealth. Not to give wealth to wives or children. To transfer wealth from one province to...

In mid 744, after the assassination of Walid ii, at the site of the prophet's mother's grave (alAbwa), the majority of Banu Hashim, including the Abbasids: Ibrahim al imam, Saffah and AlMansur, all pledged fealty to Muhammad ibn Abdullah anNafs azZakiyyah. The Abbasids won the loyalty of...

As the title says, i want to know if there was any chance for a Muslim to become the Emperor of Rome. I dont mean someone like the Ottomans taking the title of Byzantine/Roman Emperors, i mean a Muslim guy manages to outwit the Byzantine powercenters and insert himself onto Emperorship. It...

In 647, outside the temporary capital of the exarchate of Africa, Sufetula, the Muslims crushed the Roman army, killing the exarch Gregory. Leaving the rest of the Roman Maghreb defenceless. Commanded by some of the most senior of companions of the prophet: But instead of pressing on, they...

On 1600s the Ilocanos, Kapampangans, and Pangasinenses would adopt Chinese influences and would be partially sinified as a result, while the Gaddangic like the Gaddangs, Irrayas, Yogads, and Irita would increase in population in Cagayan Valley in the 1600s and would continue to resist the...

Would it be viable for the two Islamic Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina to be declared de-jure independent city-states (or both cities as a single state), that are geopolitically neutral, and do not belong to any country, but instead belong to the Ummah (the Muslim world), are (in theory) open to...

I feel this is an important question given how the fallout of the War has negatively impacted us ordinary folk here in the West; folk who more often than not have no great political investment or interest in what happens in the East. I'm not really raising a question here about racial or...

What would it take for the major Muslim countries, run by Islamist or Islamist-friendly governments, to create a Pan-Islamist bloc that can at least challenge (probably not outright win in a total war, more like win in a proxy war) the other major alliances like the Warsaw Pact/Comintern and...

OTL: Wikipedia states that Ruslan Khasbulatov was the 'Second most powerful man in Russia after Boris Yeltsin in 1993.' During the Constitutional crisis the Russian Parliament (Khasbulatov the Speaker, Alexander Rutskoy Vice-President) pitted themselves against Boris Yeltsin (the President). To...

So the son of Peroz III, Narseih was going to Persia, or more specifically the Persian steppes to be restored to the sassanian throne with the aid of a noble named Pei with the backing of the Tang Dynasty. Apparently the plan was to liberate transoxiana, and then restore Peroz III's rump state...

The plague of Emmaeus, rendered in Arabic as Amwas, was a recurrence of the bubonic plague epidemics that had afflicted the region, and was likely a resurgence of the plague of Justinian. It started in the city of Amwas, captured after the victories at Ajnadayn and Yarmouk, in the army camp...

It's without a doubt that Persia has has highly influenced Islam and the Caliphate in its early history. In fact, the Persians had formed the backbone of the Abbasid administration and most scholars of the Islamic golden age were Persian. So therefore I pose a question: What future does the...

I am no expert in Islamic history, but let me sketch out a very rough scenario. Say that during the early Muslim conquests the Umayyad Caliphate is able to take Constantinople, largely inheriting the mantle of the Roman Empire, and that later on, in some counterpart to the Battle of Tours, the...

Al-Andalus was in decline for centuries (corruption and decadence come into mind) and was at its death kneel by 1200 with the power balance clearly in favour of the Christian Kingdoms of Portugal, Castille and Aragon. However, I challenge you to do whatever you can to not only repel the...

There are several historical figures that were not too far off inventing the steam engine however, al-Jazari was undoubtedly the closest, in the early 13th century... A proto-industrial revolution with only al-Jazari's inventions is a possibility, he invented an early crankshaft in 1206 [1], he...

Saladin's role in more or less removing catholic forces from the holy land is often very much hyped up. He is seen by many as the saviour of the Islamic world from Christian invaders. Now I don't believe in the idea that a great man alone is enough to shape history so drastically. What I'm...