DBWI/AHC: Islam Spread to Egypt and North Africa instead of Taking over Asia

Dolan

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Studying the history of India, China, Japan, and South East Asian can't help but notice that before the spread of Islam, those regions actually have pretty advanced Polytheistic Religions like Vedaism (OTL Hinduism), Siddhartaism (OTL Buddhism), And also various pre-Islamic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean mythologies.

Sure, considering our world is practically divided by two monotheistic religions, with Christianity holds Europe, Africa, and the Americas, while Islam holds the entirety of Asia and Lemuria (OTL Australia), it was kind of hard imagining on how a non-monotheistic religion could still take hold in significant numbers at the current day.

But what if Islam spread the other way? Through Egypt and North Africa? Could the large "pagan" religions of Asia stayed relevant until today?
 
But Like? How? Islam emerged as the Eternal War shifted to the Peace in the East (or west if you're Persian)

The Romans under Maurice was no pushover, litarily or culturally and neither was Persia (apparently not part of Asia now, interesting)

So How? Invasion? As mentioned-Romans stronk. Trade? There was open trade for centuries, hell it was the Arab Caliphates lifeblood.

This seems pretty ASB to me
 
Well, "Instead of" might be difficult, but "As well as" could if the Host of the Great Khans managed to penetrate past Warsaw or the Igerian swamps. The Polish made quite an impressive showing at the later and blunted the westward sweep of the Tartars, so Bulgarstan (ooc: Musvovy) is the furthest Islamic state to really solidify. Have the Catholics crack, and you could see Islam spilling into the Danubian plains and taking Constantinople through the back door rather than needing to slog through rich, defensable Asia Minor
 
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