umayyads

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...

what if Justinian II conquered the caliphate during second fitna when it was extremely weak

During the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate, Abd al-Rahman I escaped to Spain and the Umayyad dynasty ruled over the Islamic Iberia until the 11th century. What if he wasn't able to escape? Would the Abbasids be able to take Spain? Would a local noble or general take over? Would a North...

The Umayyad Caliphate is well known for discriminating against people who weren't Arab practitioners of Sunni Islam. What if the Umayyads were more inclusive?

The Umayyad conquest of Hispania left an indelible mark on the Iberian peninsula. It resulted in the destruction of the Visigothic Kingdom, the period known as the Reconquista, and left impacts on the Iberian languages that are still seen to this day, among other things. So my question is...

The Battle of the Defile (731 AD, 109 AH) was a military engagement between forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by the governor of Khorasan, and forces of the Turgesh Khaganate, led by the warlord Suluk, who had, since ten years earlier, been raiding and ravaging Transoxiana after kicking the...

This is a continuation of a small discussion on the Reverse the Fates of Rome and China thread. For background: What if: The Caliphate failed to conquer Persia or Mesopotamia; focusing the energies of Islamic armies and Arab settlement to the extant or former areas of the Roman Empire. The...

In 656, Rashidun caliph Uthman was assassinated by an angry mob of muslim pilgrims invading his house. His death sparked a succession crisis, known as the First Fitna, which briefly interrupted the expansion of the Rashidun caliphate, yet led to the creation of the Umayyad caliphate. But what if...

Self-explanatory title. Basically, reverse the fates of the Byzantine and Sassanid empires during the islamic expansion wars, and possibly have islamic culture be influenced more by the greeks than the persians. Go!

Introduction & Overview Justinian: The most fascinating yet overlooked Emperor of all the Roman Emperors that I know about in the 1500 years of Empire in OTL was an arrogant, stubborn, cruel and oppressive individual who ended his days in insanity and blood-soaked revenge of all those he...