Al-Angalia: The Islamic Kingdom of England

The Common Law was a Norman innovation, wasn't it? Too bad, it would be really interesting to see if the idea of a secular judiciary spread to the rest of the Muslim world, since perhaps the secular and religious dichotomy that existed in England (what with the elected monarchy and the moots and jury trials and whatnot that are not prescribed in the bible) might have been preserved into the 'present'. I'm really interested in the economic, cultural and legal developments in Islamo-Saxon England, as well as the cultural developments (since i'm not as well-versed in the economic or legal systems around there) in Scandanavia, but I understand if you're caught up in the geopolitical story.
 
The Common Law was a Norman innovation, wasn't it? Too bad, it would be really interesting to see if the idea of a secular judiciary spread to the rest of the Muslim world, since perhaps the secular and religious dichotomy that existed in England (what with the elected monarchy and the moots and jury trials and whatnot that are not prescribed in the bible) might have been preserved into the 'present'. I'm really interested in the economic, cultural and legal developments in Islamo-Saxon England, as well as the cultural developments (since i'm not as well-versed in the economic or legal systems around there) in Scandanavia, but I understand if you're caught up in the geopolitical story.

Common law as we know it was indeed a Norman development- that's why I used the term Anglo-Saxon law which still provides the basis for much of the Common Law. I'll try to include some stuff on legal developments but the Law isn't my area of expertise.
 
*Cough*The Normans are Muslim ITTL.*cough* :D

He was asking about the development of the Common Law IOTL, mate.

Also, ITTL the Normans were driven from Normandy (or Geatterre ITTL) and by this time have probably been absorbed into the Anglo-Saxon nobility. There are likely a few noble houses with Norman names but I doubt they'd self-identify as Norman.
 
A question! How come the Muslim Anglo-Saxon kingdom became a Caliphate so fast? :confused: Alfred had just converted to Islam, and he suddenly declared himself a Caliph? There should be a quite long story behind this, in my opinion.
 
A question! How come the Muslim Anglo-Saxon kingdom became a Caliphate so fast? :confused: Alfred had just converted to Islam, and he suddenly declared himself a Caliph? There should be a quite long story behind this, in my opinion.

Because I was just throwing the thread together. It might be best to just ignore that bit- I'm retconning it to adopt the idea that the English kings declare themselves Caliphs once the Alfredi start getting persecuted by the Zamiqi.
 
Oh wow, this is one cool alternate history :)

I'm surprised they still haven't arabised Alfred's name yet. I suppose if Arabic in this England was to Latin in our England then it would explain it, but with someone who was (even more) important to TTL Al-Angalia than it was to the OTL one I'm suprised nobody has done anything funky with it over the centuries :D

Keep up the good work! I love alternate history.
 
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