A part of the long-running pre-1900 alternate history epic "The Eight-Pointed Star: The Alternate History of Islam and the Middle East", where 'Ali and his descendants became caliphs after they reunified the Arab tribes and defeated (and subdued) rival factions in the aftermath of the defeat in the battle of Yathrib; as a result, an alternate version of Ibadi Islam spread across the Levant and North African, thus introducing the religion and converting local populations using translations of the Holy Quran in their own languages. In this part of the epic, Arab traders learned about
"Kama Sutra" while they're engaged in trading with their Indian counterparts; at first, they were intrigued to the point of being scandalized; however, they found the book very informative. Nonetheless, the first translated version of
"Kama Sutra" appeared in Persian (published in Sistan, a province in Persia set up for the Muslims), Akkadian and Egyptian languages because of the fact that the Arab traders believed that it's a taboo to publish and distribute such book, especially when it talks about sensuality. The effect of "Kama Sutra" in both Islamic art and literature was enormous: erotic poems were written and published by some of the famous poets in the Islamic world; and it was acknowledged that Islamic sculpture has its origins on the "forbidden figures" made by the artisans for the rulers outside Arabia. The biggest surprise of the scenario was that the caliphs themselves in the capital Jeddah owned copies of the Arabic-language translation of
"Kama Sutra" and the so-called
"forbidden figures" of gyrating bodies and nudes that reflected the Islamic adaptation of Indian sexuality.
A chapter of the post-1900 alternate history scenario
"Red, White, and Green: The Orthodox Magyars of Transylvannia and its relationship with Hungary in the 20th Century", the sequel to the long-running epic
"The Seven Magyar Tribes and the Eighth", in which it continued the saga of the Hungarian-speaking Orthodox Christians living in Transylvannia and its complex relationship with the rest of Hungary. In this chapter, it tackled the effects of the Treaty of Trianon on the Orthodox Magyars: the Hungarian Communist Party, with a large percentage of its members came from Transylvania, quickly established the People's Republic of Hungary in the city of Kolozsvár, which it became its capital; its territory include the Szekerly Country, which resented the domination of the Transylvanian Magyars, especially the Hungarian Orthodox, in the government of HPR. The Hungarian People's Republic participated in the two-year conflict that plagued the country (1918-20), but it was defeated by a coalition of monarchist and democratic factions, leading to the first division of Hungary into two rival nations: the revived Kingdom of Hungary in Budapest and Hungarian People's Republic in Kolozsvár. Despite the recognition from the Soviet Union, the rest of the League of Nations backed Budapest's argument that the territory occupied by the People's Republic was actually part of Hungarian Kingdom as "Transylvania and Szekerlyland".
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