Christian European State converting to Islam

Which European Christian state had the biggest potential to turn Islamic? PoD is 1200 AD.

For the sake of the topic, Which Muslim State had the biggest potential to turn Christian? PoD for this is 1400 AD
 
Which European Christian state had the biggest potential to turn Islamic? PoD is 1200 AD.

For the sake of the topic, Which Muslim State had the biggest potential to turn Christian? PoD for this is 1400 AD
Probably some small Balkan state, or maybe even Greece. Proximity to strong Muslim powers, weak Christian unity in the area. Russia could work if there’s some wacky invasion or something.

The other question is harder, but I’d say probably a North African kingdom that manages to become subject to some sort of Western European power.
 
Which European Christian state had the biggest potential to turn Islamic? PoD is 1200 AD.

For the sake of the topic, Which Muslim State had the biggest potential to turn Christian? PoD for this is 1400 AD
Maybe Serbia..maybe some italian one(sicily) maybe all iberia become muslim...and so on
 

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You have Tatars already. I don't think anyone else would convert without being conquered. Even Balkans without conquest would remain Christian probably assimilating into the more united Churches.
 
What exactly do you mean by Christian European state? Do you include areas that were not independent states at the time? You have some European states today that have a majority of Muslims, like Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they where not independent states when they became majority. You need to specify the question: How large percentage of the population must become Muslims in order to count as "turning Islamic" and must they be inedependent states when they became Islamic? Islamic areas were in the past often ruled by large empires, not smaller kingdoms like what has been usual in Christian European countries. And of course, if you include areas that were not independent at the time, they would not necessarily become independent in the same form they did if they became majority Muslim. Maybe they would not even become independent at all, but prefer to remain part of a larger empire. There may be a lot of butterflies in this scenario, and the Ottoman Empire might perhaps not disintegrate to the same extent that it did OTL.

If you include areas that were not independent at the time: Were Chechnya at any point a Christian dominated area? If so, make Russia disintegrate to the point where Chechnya becomes independent.

About the other question? Maybe Morocco if Spain continue the reconquest to the other side of the strait of Gibraltar and follows the same policy of expelling those who refuse to convert to Christianity? This one is harder and less likely than the first one, though.
 
The Ottoman invasion of Hungary is delayed by a century or more, but something else weakens the Habsburgs. A non-trinitarian form of Protestantism (earlier Polish Brethren) spreads in Transylvania which de facto arrives at a lot of Islamic doctrinal positions while being Christian. Then, the prince of Transylvania (may be Transylvanian Saxon by this point) converts to Islam as part of an alliance with the Ottomans.
 
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Chechens/Nakhs (Dzurdzukhetia/Ichkeria) and some groups of Circassians would count since they were Christian under Georgian influence and later converted to Islam after Georgia fragmented.
 
What about a state being established after a revolt by some kind of dissident Chrisitians? Would such a state be more open to accepting Islam?
 
Lithuania played fast and loose with religion, switching between Orthdodox, Catholic and Pagan. I'm sure you could get some Islam in there.
 
What about a state being established after a revolt by some kind of dissident Chrisitians? Would such a state be more open to accepting Islam?

I assume Transylvania with the Hungarians turning Unitarian. If they are being isolated from the PLC and the Austrians combined with aggressive discrimination from other Christians, they could turn Islamic. Especially if the Ottomans influence this state more enough. Add some Tatars to the region and the state would be divided between the new Islamic Hungarians and Tatars and the Orthodox Romanians. By Koprulu Mehmed Pasha's term as Grand Vizier, this state might get absorbed. The biggest thing is that these Islamic Hungarians are likely to get separated from their kin in Hungary Proper.

Although I do find the chance of Transylvanian Hungarians turning Muslim very... low.
 
The Ottoman invasion of Hungary is delayed by a century or more, but something else weakens the Habsburgs. A non-trinitarian form of Protestantism (earlier Polish Brethren) spreads in Transylvania which de facto arrives at a lot of Islamic doctrinal positions while being Christian. Then, the prince of Transylvania (may be Transylvanian Saxon by this point) converts to Islam as part of an alliance with the Ottomans.

For this to happen, the Unitarians must be discriminated by pretty much all Christian denominations. With more Ottoman success in Hungary, the chances are there. So everything has to go right.
 
What exactly do you mean by Christian European state? Do you include areas that were not independent states at the time? You have some European states today that have a majority of Muslims, like Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they where not independent states when they became majority. You need to specify the question: How large percentage of the population must become Muslims in order to count as "turning Islamic" and must they be inedependent states when they became Islamic? Islamic areas were in the past often ruled by large empires, not smaller kingdoms like what has been usual in Christian European countries. And of course, if you include areas that were not independent at the time, they would not necessarily become independent in the same form they did if they became majority Muslim. Maybe they would not even become independent at all, but prefer to remain part of a larger empire. There may be a lot of butterflies in this scenario, and the Ottoman Empire might perhaps not disintegrate to the same extent that it did OTL.

If you include areas that were not independent at the time: Were Chechnya at any point a Christian dominated area? If so, make Russia disintegrate to the point where Chechnya becomes independent.

About the other question? Maybe Morocco if Spain continue the reconquest to the other side of the strait of Gibraltar and follows the same policy of expelling those who refuse to convert to Christianity? This one is harder and less likely than the first one, though.

Any state that existed between 1400-1700 AD. So Kingdom of Hungary for example (unlikely example...). Or the Tsardom of Vidin.
 
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