PoeFacedKilla
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i didn't think that islamic conquest were still very possible, i just said it'd be cool to see some Germanic languages (influenced by African and Arabian languages) in an Arabic alphabet.I doubt the former. The scenario completely upsets the history of the Mediterranean before 450. Even if that didn't butterfly away Muhammed (and it would), it would almost certainly do so to the situation in Arabia that allowed his unification campaign. And even if a prophet appears to lead the Allah-worshippers to conquest of Arabia, the odds would be enormously against it occurring at an identical moment of vulnerability for the adjacent empires. If Islam had appeared fifty years earlier or later it would likely have bounced off its neighbors without making a dent.
What might be interesting would be exploring a more "German" migration period for the Arabs. The Persia and/or the post-Rome are likely to exhaust themselves at some point, and Arabs had been migrating into their territories for centuries. Less organized Arab invasions could have broken off many provinces in a more typical barbarian migration period. More like the Aramaeans before them.