Mookie
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People seem to assume, despite Persian and Egyptian examples, that Islam will become literally semi-Orthodox Christian with icons, masses and saints had Byzantium fallen to Caliphate's machination. That just comes straight out of naive whim. I would say the marks will be more subtle, but how exactly ?
Persia gave Islam 99 names of God, Fiqh and Sufism IOTL. And even with Byzantine resisted initial Islamic conquest, we still saw salat and adoption of Classical Greek philoshophies into Islam. What will add up ? I guess it needs to be pointed out that with the absence of Islam, means the absence of an (eastern) christian contender to Islam. How will it change to relations and polemics between Islam and Christianity ?
Thoughts ? I'm not saying there won't be syncretism and all kinds of hijinks, but for orthodoxy we will assume the conservative yet if possible, ground breaking kind of change, as how fiqh and sufism proved to be.
None of that is addopted into Islam, but into muslim culture.