AHC: Ethiopian reconquista

With a POD after 700 AD, have the Christians of Ethiopia conquer Muslim Egypt and evict all Muslims from the territory before 1607 AD.

That's... hard...

Egypt needs to remain 50-50 in religion. Equally divided. Ethiopia needs to be unified and have a decent military tradition. Something like the Mamluks or Military Religious orders.

But even then, Egypt is surrounded by Muslim Powers. The Iberians had only 1 Muslim neighbour in the South. And they were disunited. Not out of question for it to happen but something reallt strange has to happen.
 
700 ad Nubia was Christian I would lay until the 1600s and upper Egypt was defiantly Christian up to 1100 and they progressivel lost territory so they would have more at this time so just have some great leaders and disunited Muslim region and then they can conquer them and give time it would be Christian and then maybe have a seriou if radical leaders and finally pries ethioap of Muslims
 
Having the Aksumite Empire survive could potentially see Aksumite Ethiopia launch an invasion into Egypt to re-Christianize it but how successful it'd be, I'm not sure.
 
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In regards to the OP, I think @OurSacredWar probably has it right on the nose - a stronger surviving Axumite Empire could do the trick but it depends on how much territory this alternate Axum controls and how close to Egypt it actually is. If you have Axum take the chance to incorporate Christian Nubia into her Empire, this could potentially allow for the Axumites to at least share a border with Egypt if Muslim occupation occurs as it did IOTL and launch an invasion into Upper Egypt.
 
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