Islamic German empire

Adolf Hitler famously admired Islam and wished the Germanic people's had converted to it instead of Christianity.

"Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire."

This quote is from Albert Speer.

Basically what if after an Islamic victory at Tours the Germanic tribes become Islamized and then go to rule the Muslim world or large parts of it by the 10th century AD.

Is this possible? Could the islamized Germans in such a world have ascended to such heights?
 
Unlikely. Assuming that the German kingdoms and tribes go from Christianity and Paganism to Islam (an outcome that's basically ASB, but I digress), Germany is still going to have to contend with the Lombards, the western Franks and the Byzantines (also the Bavarians depending on your interpretation of 'Germany'). They're too far away to get backup from the Caliphate, so they're on their own.

Now, if the German Muslims somehow overcome these obstacles, they're still in Germany. Germany at the time was the peripheral of Europe, the backwater of a backwater. They don't have the prestigious past of the Persians, nor the riches of the Egyptians, and they certainly don't have the Arabs' claim to Mohammed's descendants. In OTL one of the main reasons Germany was important for centuries was because of the HRE. No Christianity, no HRE, no HRE, no German power. And even when the HRE was a thing in OTL, it was rarely the powerhouse that the Caliphates were. Not to mention that the PoD is far back enough that the causes of Arabia and Persia's decline might not even happen ITTL.
 
Basically what if after an Islamic victory at Tours the Germanic tribes become Islamized and then go to rule the Muslim world or large parts of it by the 10th century AD.
The Battle of Tours itself didn't have by itself a great historical importance (which was inflated by Carolingian hagiographs in order to point out Peppinids were truly the defeders of religion and France and were totally justified to overthrow Merovingians) , but was a part of a tripartite ensemble of battles (Toulouse/Tours/La Berre) that did provoked a temporary halt in Arabo-Andalusian raids, and really limited these to the Mediterranean frame.
It doesn't mean that was at stake was an invasion, partial or not : what we have looks more another Arabo-Berber razzia as you had in 725-726 where they plundered all the Rhone Valley and reached Sens (much northern than Tours) : it's barely mentioned because Charles Martel didn't cared enough about it (he was busy putting back Bavaria unto obedience) and that these successful raids obviously didn't led to an Islamic occupation of Provence and Burgundy.

The 732 campaign, altough as well motivated by political reasons (basically Eudon of Aquitaine tried to ally with a Berber lord holding pyrenean passes, Munuza, which was revolting against the quasi vice-royal authority of the governor), couldn't as well led to a full-blown conquest of Gaul, due to the really limited forces : Arabo-Berers represented maybe 20 000 people for the whole of Al-Andalus. North of Pyrenees (and even in several places south of them) you had only an handful of known Arabic garrisons (Narbonne, mostly), all the rest being under submitted Christian nobility.
In spite of a more or less "schock of civilization"-driven historiography would want to pull, Abd al-Rahman's troops were probably no more than 10,000 men, and that's as maximalist you could get, with probably much less so.

At best, I could see southern parts of Aquitaine being occupied, but really remporarily, given the aformentioned logistical problems, and the Berber Revolt which is still pretty much bound to happen.
 
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