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This idea draws inspiration from a Germanic Islam developed by @Venusian Si and @B_Munro. You can read about it in more detail at links below...

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/oneshot-scenarios-2.380935/page-136#post-14198046

https://www.deviantart.com/quantumbranching/art/German-Islam-671513750

...but I will sum things up by quoting Bruce:

In this world, the late Roman penetration of Christianity into the German lands would lead to a reaction, in the form of a Mohammed-like figure, who in the story as it would be told would take a walk at night in a holy grove, and be overcome with visions. Syncretizing Christianity with various elements of Germanic belief, this monotheistic-with-some-frills religion would be an expansionist one, claiming to be an original truth than Christians and Jews had forgotten and would have to be reminded of, by the sword if necessary. So when the Germanic invasions got underway, it would be a religious crusade as well as a territorial migration...

This is obviously meant to parallel the rise of Islam in our world, but it got me thinking: could a third (or fourth) major Abrahamic religion have appeared among the early Slavs? That is, were the requisite conditions there in that part of the world, at that time, for a major religion capable of competing with Christianity to form?

If so, when exactly would the conditions have been most conducive? Perhaps in the early waves of the Slavic migrations during the sixth and seventh centuries, bringing a new Abrahamic religion to Central and Southeastern Europe along with their new language and culture? Or perhaps later on, in the ninth or tenth century, when the established Slavic states and tribal confederations were more familiar with Christianity but still largely pagan themselves?

In any case, it would be interesting to see how the Norse and other surviving Germanic pagans react to the division of the rest of Europe between two major Abrahamic religions, as well as how this might impact the migrating Magyar and Turkic peoples.

(As an aside, it surprises me that “reformed Germanic paganism” or “reformed Slavic paganism” scenarios and threads are more popular than those dealing with new Abrahamic religions rising Germanic, Slavic, Turkic, or other peoples.)
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