AHC: Curb Islam in South / Southeast Asia

With no PoDs prior to 1030, how can the OTL growth of the Muslim population and/or Islamic influence in India, Indonesia, et el over the next five centuries or so be as minimized as possible? What are the effects of said changes in this 500 year period?
 
Kill Zheng He
How important was Zheng He to the rise of Islam in the Indies? To my (admittedly very limited) understanding, there had already been a number of sultanates in the preceding centuries, starting with the Kedah in 1136; right?
Weaken the early Muslim states in Afghanistan.
OP said no PoDs prior to 1030 for a reason along the lines of making that easier said than done.
 
How important was Zheng He to the rise of Islam in the Indies? To my (admittedly very limited) understanding, there had already been a number of sultanates in the preceding centuries, starting with the Kedah in 1136; right?

OP said no PoDs prior to 1030 for a reason along the lines of making that easier said than done.
I misread that as after 1030.
 
True, but the Timurids aren't as much. Kill Timur in 1337 or so. Boom.
Even by the time Timur came to power, you had the Tughlaq Dynasty controlling most of India; I would think we'd be looking at the early Delhi Sultanate at the latest if we want to be ambitious in curbing Islam (at least in India), though if there was someway of stopping the successes of the Ghurids in the later 12th Century, that would be even better.
 
Even by the time Timur came to power, you had the Tughlaq Dynasty controlling most of India; I would think we'd be looking at the early Delhi Sultanate at the latest if we want to be ambitious in curbing Islam (at least in India), though if there was someway of stopping the successes of the Ghurids in the later 12th Century, that would be even better.
True, but that's hard as the only viable polities able to knock the Ghurids down a few pegs are also Muslim.

What about the leadership of the Ilkhanate never converting to Islam?
 
Of course, even if the Ghurids are taken down a peg, there's still Sindh, which our PoD limitations can't really help with AFAICT.
True, but that's hard as the only viable polities able to knock the Ghurids down a few pegs are also Muslim.
That's still fine for the purposes of this thread, so long as one of the effects is halting, or at least slowing, the spread of Islam in India (and Southeast Asia).
What about the leadership of the Ilkhanate never converting to Islam?
Again, by the time that happens, it's pretty late.
 
Keep the Majapahit strong and maybe make them centralized, and have them convert to Christianity when the Portuguese come knocking. That blocks Islam in Southeast Asia. :p
 
and have them convert to Christianity when the Portuguese come knocking
This I don’t think is necessary, and don’t really see it being particularly helpful as such; the Portuguese could just turn them into a satellite kingdom, that seems more plausible.

It’s also still a surprisingly late PoD, considering the height under Gajah Mada was in the mid 14th century.
 
The most important step is to weaken the role of Muslim traders in obtaining conversions somehow. Turkic invasions are probably inescapable but those same invasions leading to mass conversion is not, especially in Indonesia and especially with lessened Arab trade. The second most important thing I think is to make Buddhism in Bengal die out in favor of Hinduism - right there you've stopped millions of potential converts - and given the trajectory of the subcontinent it's not even all that unlikely as long as the Turks don't get to rule Bengal for any length of time - which depends on additional stronger and more capable Hindu rulers with states akin to Vijayanagar.

I know that's very broad, but I think it makes a good starting point with nothing too crazy being proposed.
 
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