AHC: Restore Persia to prominance post-Islam

Throughout antiquity Persia was one of the dominant powers of the Middle East from the Achaemenid to the Sassanid dynasty. In the end centuries of warfare with the Romans left them weak and the Muslim conquests overran them. Whilst Persia and Persian culture was able to carve a respectable place for themselves within the Islamic world Persia would never again reach the same levels of dominance that it had enjoyed at its height.

The Challenge is to have a Persian speaking and centred empire control the Levant for at least two centuries after the Muslim conquests. Bonus points if they are also able to expand into Anatolia and Egypt and also if they are able to be recognised as the legitimate Caliph by the majority of the, either Sunni or Shia, Muslim world.
 
Throughout antiquity Persia was one of the dominant powers of the Middle East from the Achaemenid to the Sassanid dynasty. In the end centuries of warfare with the Romans left them weak and the Muslim conquests overran them. Whilst Persia and Persian culture was able to carve a respectable place for themselves within the Islamic world Persia would never again reach the same levels of dominance that it had enjoyed at its height.

The Challenge is to have a Persian speaking and centred empire control the Levant for at least two centuries after the Muslim conquests. Bonus points if they are also able to expand into Anatolia and Egypt and also if they are able to be recognised as the legitimate Caliph by the majority of the, either Sunni or Shia, Muslim world.
Would a more Persianized Seljuk Empire count?
 
Iran is slowly gaining more and more regional dominance atm. In the future, if the power of Saudi Arabia is enough reduced, Iran could once again be an important global power. Would that count?
 
Pretty sure Nader Shah could be claimed to have done this IRL. It's just he sort of fell apart in his later years, and civil war among his successors allowed numerous groups to declare independence from amongst his conquests.
 
The Abbasid Caliphate has been characterised as a Persian nationalist revolt as early as 750. The Abbasids took a strongly Persian flavour and much of the bureauracy was staffed by Persians to the extent that it could be considered a blended Arab-Persian state.

Also one could consider the Samanids and the Buyids. The rise of the Turks probably prevented a native Persian dynasty taking power though so maybe prevent the Seljuk empire from happening?

One could also imagine the famed Assassins under Hassan e Sabeh the "Old man of the Mountains" forming a more successful empire. The Shia Ismaeli Nizaris were a sect that gained some support after the overthrow of the Shia Fatimids in Egypt. Based in Iran's Alborz mountains with their headquarters at Alamut castle, the Assassins were deadly and fearsome warriors. It took a Mongol invasion to finally defeat them, and even then only by overwhelming numbers.
 
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