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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.
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