AH chalenge - a Muslim army sacks Rome in 179 BH/800 AD

an armed force of muslim denomination sacks Rome around 800 AD
it can come from iberia after a more sucesfull campaing in southern france or it can be an expansion of muslim rule in the apenines, or part of a large move into europe

or it can simply be a fluke, a army of saracen pirates caching the Romans off guard, during some non related political/religious turmoil or somesuch crisis

but preferably a large well organised military campaing, the above mentioned sounds abit like ASB

bonus if most of the apenines including Rome stay muslim, or at least if it is not taken back by christians for a few decades
 
ok so it doesnt sound like ASB

but the point would be that this fall of Rome shoul be not just another sack like the many before and after, but a major chatolic defeat, causing a permanent or at least prolonged loss of the religions capital and abolishment of the papal state
 
ok so it doesnt sound like ASB

but the point would be that this fall of Rome shoul be not just another sack like the many before and after, but a major chatolic defeat, causing a permanent or at least prolonged loss of the religions capital and abolishment of the papal state

That would be more in ASB territory... to get that to work, there would have to be persistent threats. Maybe a yearly raid on Rome and other Italian cities by the Arabs, which makes the city dirt-poor. I could see the pope fleeing to Aachen to protect himself from the Arab invaders.
 
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