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More than 11 months ago, Leo Caesius started a TL about an Islamic England with a well late PoD :

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=122068&highlight=Yahya+Emir

Here's the basic idea about the TL :

Day 24 of the Month of the Truce, 601 A.H.

The death of Walter Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the catalyst for a crisis of faith. The monks of Canterbury elected Prior Richard, one of their own number, as his successor, and dispatched him to Rome to be confirmed in his new role. After he had departed, King John of Robin Hood infamy, the Angevin King of England, forced the monks to elect John de Gray, Bishop of Norwich, in his place, and sent him to Rome as well. When the two men arrived at the court of Lothario de Conti, Pope Innocent III, the Pope dismissed both and appointed Stephen Langton, Professor of Theology at the Université de Paris, as the new Archbishop.

The reaction from King John was immediate. Encouraged by his barons and the bishops, he refused to accept Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury, and expelled the monks from England. Innocent retaliated by pronouncing an interdict against the Kingdom of England. All churches were closed. The English were denied the sacraments of the Eucharist, confession, marriage, and even the last rites. In the past such interdicts were a powerful tool to bend kings to the Pope's will, and if the king refused to bend, his subjects often rebelled against him. In this case, though, John refused to budge, and with few exceptions his subjects stood behind him.

For the next five years, the churches remained closed, and Christian worship became a hazy memory in England. Innocent peremptorily excommunicated John without effect. The situation had come to a head. Bereft of any other options, he threatened to declare a crusade against the renegade John and his infidel England.

At this point, history took an unexpected turn. Three emissaries, Thomas of Erdington, Radulus, son of Nicholas Esquire, and a cleric, Robert of London, arrived in Marrakesh at the court of the Almohad caliph, Muhammad an-Nâsir. They brought with them an unusual proposal--the King was offering England's submission to Islam and an-Nâsir, in exchange for his support against the coming crusade. Furthermore, John would not merely relinquish the Christian faith, which he considered vain, but would adhere faithfully to the law of Muhammad.

History tells us that the Caliph an-Nâsir, chastised by his defeat the previous year at Las Navas de Tolosa, spurned John's offer. Some say that he responded that no free man should willingly become a slave, and no man should ever abjure the faith into which he had been born. This rejection was the last straw for John, who then approached Innocent, hat in hand, and offered to surrender the Kingdom of England to God and the Saints Peter and Paul for a feudal service of 1,000 marks annually, 700 for England and 300 for Ireland. While John had few other options at this point, this was widely viewed as a smart move, as it prevented Innocent from following through with his threat of a crusade. Nevertheless, having been thoroughly hamstrung, John met his barons at Runnymede the following year and signed the Magna Charta; the rest, as they say, is history. Robert of London later became the guardian of St Albans Abbey, where he related this strange tale to the chronicler Matthew Paris.

What if an-Nâsir had been more favorably disposed towards John's emissaries and had accepted his submission? What if John and his supporters among the English barons and the clergy had converted to Islam? How would his subjects, abandoned by Rome and threatened by a brutal crusade at the hands of Innocent and Philippe Auguste of France, react to this turn of events?

There is one factor crucial as to decide where this will go to : Las Navas de Tolosa. If Las Navas de Tolosa went as much as OTL, I don't think England would survive the brutal conquest and agony resulted from the sinister Crusades. This though, will still be interesting as how will be the aftermath appearance of the British Isles. Will England be an Ultra-Catholic nation ? Will we see a stronger Scotland ? Anything....

If an-Nasir's forces had won the battle, putting him in the position to assist any plead of help beneficial enough for him, there will be an entirely different kind of game. Crusades will surely still come, but it'll be much more challenging for the Crusaders. If the newbie Islamic England would survive this test, well then Europe will from that point be rolling into an entirely different route of development vis a vis OTL's. What kind of place this Islamic French-ified England will be (since usually we AH.commers only speculate about Islamized Anglo-Saxons...), especially given that they will receive their Islamic teachings from the Almohads, of all Muslims....
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