Northern Yuan convert to Islam

If you make the first Yuan Emperors convert to Islam, you'll have crazy amount of divergence. And to people who say this isn't possible, just remember that Berke Khan converted to Islam after talking with a caravan in Bukhara. So such an ASB-seeming thing was already done IOTL.
 
According to wiki about Timur planed invasion of china one of Northern Yuan Khan, Engke Khan, grandson convert to Islam while he stay at Timur's court. I think best chance to have Northern Yuan convert is either they became very depended or even vassalize by one of Turkestan khanate at least for several generation to make it last.

But it is easier with Yuan Dynasty convert to Islam in the first place. Since although eventually they convert to buddhist, some Mongol even prince still convert to Islam.
 
According to wiki about Timur planed invasion of china one of Northern Yuan Khan, Engke Khan, grandson convert to Islam while he stay at Timur's court. I think best chance to have Northern Yuan convert is either they became very depended or even vassalize by one of Turkestan khanate at least for several generation to make it last.

But it is easier with Yuan Dynasty convert to Islam in the first place. Since although eventually they convert to buddhist, some Mongol even prince still convert to Islam.
I think it would have been irrelevant.Northern Yuan was barely an entity during this period of time,too fragmented and chaotic to be a coherent force,with the Oirats more or less marginalizing the Borjigins and declaring themselves Khans at one stage.
 
It is possible for the Northern Yuan to convert, although it might not make much of the differences to be honest. Might follow the OTL pattern or vassalized by other Turkic khanates.
 
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