southeast asian history

Random as it may sound, I would find it very interesting to toy around with the idea of Myanmar/Burma converting to Islam. In our modern day, Myanmar is considered to be a Buddhist stronghold, but back in the day, the circumstances for it to adopt Islam were certainly there: To its west were the...

A while ago I made this thread: AHC: Muslim-majority Indochina. It gained quite some traction and interest before eventually dying off, which motivated to me to try something more unique. The objective of this AHC is once again to make Indochina a firmly Islamic region, but with a twist...

Ramathipadi I is notably the only king of Cambodia in its history to convert to Islam, renaming himself to Sultan Ibrahim. He did this after being implored by his partner (and eventual wife and queen), Neak Moneang, who was of Cham and / or Malay blood. The two had a daughter, Princess Dav...

How could we invent a realistic situation in which a nation-state (or even just a centralized enough East Asian kingdom) dominated ethnically and politically by the Hmong-Miao people manages to emerge? IIRC, the Hmong population, unlike a number of other ethnicities in Southeast Asia and...

FOREWORD A year and two weeks ago (12th June 2017), I've created a new Philippine-centric timeline in which the PoD was the ancestors of OTL Chams (and possibly Acehnese) went to the eastern part of the Manila Bay region, where they've encountered tribes who speak (a direct variant/descendant)...