Islamic Byzantium?

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is off the wall, but what would have happened had Islam made enough inroads into the Byzantine Empire to actually manage to convert the Emperor? What would have happened if the Byzantine Empire became Muslim (if that's even plausible?). We'll assume that the Empire is Islamicized during the period when Islam spread through North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.

Perhaps you'd get a European crusade against the East. However, I'd suspect that the western kingdoms are too weak and disorganized to really do much about it.

Is this ASB?
 
The conversion to Islam would happen earlier here. I'd expect that a conversion in the 7th century or whenever Mohammed lived would change things a lot by the time 1453 came along.
 
As has been already said: Ottomans. Byzantium's very nature was its Christianity (or its Orthodox Christianity) and its link to Rome. Without one of them, it would cease to be Byzantium.
 
What about the Iconoclasts? If they win or the early Muslims see them closer to being believers, could this equal or lead to a "Muslim" Roman Empire. :cool:
 
Rhomania Empire converts to Islam without at first being subdued by muslims ? Not a chance.

A successful muslim conquest of Constantinople, subsequent conversion of the elites to Islam that later rise up to rebuild Rhomania Empire, now as a muslim entity, once Umayyad Empire crumbles, now a muslim entity, is doable.
 
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