AHC : Islamic *Phalangism !!

I place this topic in pre-1900 because I'm not sure if post-1900 PoD for this can be found.

Partially inspired by EdT's "Fight and Be Right" TL which depicts a *phalangist Orthodox Russia, I wonder if we can make an analogue out of an Islamic basis template as well.
 
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I thought they are a bit to leftist and not Islamic enough ?

In theory, yes, but in Iraqi Ba'athism after 1991 a lot of religious populism got thrown in as well. Also, I wouldn't confuse some land reform, state owned companies, and diplomatic alignment with the USSR to be leftism incarnate. Ba'athism may have pursued leftist policies, but it's guiding principles were Arab nationalist-chauvinist.
 
The problem with an Islamic Phalangism with a pre-1900 POD is Ottoman and post-World War I politics makes a decisively pro-Islamic radicalism unlikely. You would need a secular liberal strand to dominate in an Islamic nation but do very poorly, then you'll see a more authoritarian and religiously focused group come to the fore.

I actually see an Ottoman Empire that keeps the Constitutional Era going as a possible playground for this - let the Empire stay neutral during WWI and continue to wobble into the 1930s, I think Young Turks Mark II could have the right stuff.

Still as said a more modern version is Ba'athism. To make it more Islamic why not have Iran fall to the Tudeh Marxists in 1979? Suddenly Saddam is facing a Commie, radical Iran on his border, he might whip out the Quran to rally Arab support, plenty of historic parrallels he can draw, the mighty holy Arab warriors marching to liberate the infidels of Persia etc. etc.
 
In theory, yes, but in Iraqi Ba'athism after 1991 a lot of religious populism got thrown in as well. Also, I wouldn't confuse some land reform, state owned companies, and diplomatic alignment with the USSR to be leftism incarnate. Ba'athism may have pursued leftist policies, but it's guiding principles were Arab nationalist-chauvinist.

I wouldn't confuse land reform, state owned companies and alignment to USSR to be leftism incarnate as well, but I certainly didn't specify in the OP that it needs to be Islamic *phalangism from the very start (so Baathist point taken), at least since they start using their label so the said label is representative to an ideology that is basically anti-left Islamic Integralism. Let us start from there.
 
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