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The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the rise of the Ummayyads be concurrent with Muhammad leaving no living descendants ala Ali and Hussein. Without living descendants, how does Islam develop in terms of challenges to the Caliphate, as such challenges will inevitably develop with this being the nature of empires? What replaces Shia Islam as the Islamic version of mysticism? Personally as I see it the most likely replacement of Shia Islam would be the emergence of a different version of the concept of the Mahdi, increasing Islam's resemblance to Judaism in some crucial aspects, while the absence of Shia Islam might also lead to the emergence of a native Muslim concept of monarchy, which IIRC emerged more in practice than theory under Sunni rulers.
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