AHC: Islamic Baltic

Your challenge is to, with a POD no earlier than 1000, make the Baltic Sea (including the Gulf of Bothnia) majority Muslim.
 
A good place to start would be for the Golden Horde/Mongol-Kipchak Khanate to cut its vassal, the principality of Muscovy down to size in the early 1300's and avoids war with Timur the Lame in the late 1300's. Perhaps have the Jochid dynasty survive after Janibeg Khan, the son of Uzbeg, whom made Islam the official religion of the Golden Horde.
 

Kosta

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Your challenge is to, with a POD no earlier than 1000, make the Baltic Sea (including the Gulf of Bothnia) majority Muslim.

The Lipka Tatars could come in a bigger force to the Baltic in the 1300s, and perhaps, somehow, if you make them want to not along live on the land but dominate the land [the Baltic], perhaps enough conversions (both forced and voluntary), and outright conquest, thus biting the hand that fed them, could make the Baltic have a substantial Muslim population. But any Muslim-Baltic would be amidst a sea of Christian-neighbours (Russia, Sweden, the HRE, any remnant-forces of the Poles) and even some surviving and probably rightfull-pissed Baltic-Pagans would be nearby; it'd never last, a Muslim Baltic.

The best I could see is more Tatars immigrate to the Baltic and perhaps attract more immigration of Muslims from the Frozen-North after Russian conquers Kazan. Then maybe an eighth, a sixth, a fifth, or even a fourth of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth could be Muslim.
 
Actually it doesnt look impossile. Because in Viking Invasion of Europe, pagan Vikings learned Christian principles and many of them prefered to be Christian. Late Viking Invasion, they contacted with Almohads and Moors in Al Andulus Spain and Abbasid Caliphate in middle east. Also they connected with Byzantine Empire and they joined Byzantine army as mercenary soldiers. Some of them stayed in middle east and they blinded in Ortodox people. Perhaps some of them prefered to be Muslim, today for the historians it is possible. But for your topic we should imagine that these Muslim Vikings come back to their hometown in Scandinavia. An Islamic Baltic provides and Islamic north-east Europe. Because in Mongol Invasion, Golden Horde was established and it was a Muslim Empire in today's Russia and Poland, it means Scandinavia, Poland, Russia and Ukrain would be Muslim. It would be completely Muslim east Europe!!
 
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