shia islam

What if, after seizing power in Iran and the Arab world, the Buyids and Famitids began a campaign of forced conversion against the public ? In an effort to alter the demographic landscape such that Shia Islam would eventually overtake Sunni Islam as the predominant religion in the Middle East...

Following their rise to power in Iran in the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty initiated a campaign of forced conversion against the Iranian populace, seeking to create a new demographic environment in which Shia Islam would replace Sunni Islam as the nation's religious majority. Over the course...

June 8th, year 11 after the Hijrah (AH). The prophet Muhammad has died after spending his last days bedridden in Aisha’s home. It is there, in his wife's bedroom, where he is buried. The Muslims and especially the Sahabah are shocked and distressed by the loss of the prophet. However, moves are...

Alert: awfully generic information incoming. Before the outbreak of its civil war in 1975, Lebanon was a relatively prosperous country, whose capital, Beirut, was known as the "Paris of the Middle East". All that prosperity went down the drain after 15 years of infighting between more armed...

The fourth and last of the Rashidun caliphs, Ali's reign was engulfed by a civil war, the First Fitna, between him and the supporters of Mu'awiya, governor of Syria and a member of the Banu Umayya clan. The biggest battle of the war, fought at Siffin, ended in a stalemate thanks to a call for...

During the time of the Third Fitna and the decades before and after, there were a few notable Ali-id revolts attempting to replace the Umayyad and Abbasid califs. An example was the revolt by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 762. My question is, with a POD as far back as the beginning of the 8th...

As the title says, make more countries who're ended up as Shia-majority.

It is said that the 3rd Shiite Imam Hussein Ibn Ali wished to escape his persecution by fleeing to India. If I am correct he had somewhat of good relation with the Mohiyal Brahmins. What would happen if he actually fled to India? What would the Sunni-Shia schism be like? How would a Shi'ism...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Movement_(Nigeria) https://www.islamicmovement.org This movement otl success is incredible in a country so far away of Iran and shiism in general and with no previous history of shiism. How to make this movement and shia islam in Nigeria more powerful and...

Apart of Iran what other state could have become the de facto political center of shia islam? In otl the other shia majority regions are small periphery in countries dominanted by other fates, and the only three shia countries apart of Iran are: small in population and territory and only...

Have the the ottomans (or another anatolian turk dynasty) create a shia empire based around Istanbul, and sunni empire that like the Safavids gets their empire recognized as a continuation or Iran imperial tradition.

How could the Fatimids survive and convert most of Egypt to their fate? What and who should change to make this posible? What are the long term concequences?

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...

India and Iran have a lot of cultural ties. So I wonder, what if the largest religion in India was Twelver Shia Islam? Doesn't have to be a majority. Bonus points if you can get a Hindu Iran to exist as well.