AHC: Greater Muslim presence in the Americas

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to find a way to increase the presence of Muslims in both North and South America before the year 1900. Any POD from the foundation of Islam is acceptable, provided it fulfills the challenge.

And extrapolation on what effects this would have on the America's earns you an extra cookie.
 
It is possible, I can imagine a lot of list of possible scenarios.

Ottoman-Wank
Al-Andalus survives by adopting western technologies in the Reinassance, rivaling the Ottoman Empire, and goes west like OTL Spain
Muslim France (Harem baby!), yup this is possible, if the Franks failed to defend France, they'll be forced to convert to Islam. At least they'll be able to obtain harems all they want
Worse Black Death, So the unaffected factions like Empire of Mali, Majapahit Empire (which will inevitably convert to Islam), and Japan will race for world supremacy, and ends up partitioning the New World.
 
It is possible, I can imagine a lot of list of possible scenarios.

Ottoman-Wank
Al-Andalus survives by adopting western technologies in the Reinassance, rivaling the Ottoman Empire, and goes west like OTL Spain
Muslim France (Harem baby!), yup this is possible, if the Franks failed to defend France, they'll be forced to convert to Islam. At least they'll be able to obtain harems all they want
Worse Black Death, So the unaffected factions like Empire of Mali, Majapahit Empire (which will inevitably convert to Islam), and Japan will race for world supremacy, and ends up partitioning the New World.

You seem very focused on Harems. Although I personally doubt the likely hood of... really anything you mentioned. I mean Al-Andalus was pretty much on equal footing with the spanish tech wise for most of it's history if not ahead of them in many areas, really their biggest weakness was political instability and the fact that after the Taifa period all states that ruled Al Andalus where split between ruling two very different realms (the Maghreb and Al Andalus itself). You would need to resolve those problems to get them more able to run an empire. That and Muslim France is a ridiculous implausibility unless the entirety of France is conquered by the Arabs. And even that's pretty unlikely.

And the worse black death idea just doesn't make any sense.
 
You seem very focused on Harems. Although I personally doubt the likely hood of... really anything you mentioned. I mean Al-Andalus was pretty much on equal footing with the spanish tech wise for most of it's history if not ahead of them in many areas, really their biggest weakness was political instability and the fact that after the Taifa period all states that ruled Al Andalus where split between ruling two very different realms (the Maghreb and Al Andalus itself). You would need to resolve those problems to get them more able to run an empire.
Agree with you there, if the Taifa period would have been averted, they might have prospered.
Muslim France is a ridiculous implausibility unless the entirety of France is conquered by the Arabs. And even that's pretty unlikely.
We cannot say that the French cannot be converted to Islam. And the Arabs by this time knows the art of war, and is well -organized, in contrast, the Christians by this time is an utter mess, warring each other, and France alone has no professional army to say by this time, just a collection of unorganized levies.
And the worse black death idea just doesn't make any sense.
There's a TL about this.
 
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