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Is this idea possible in some vague form? Anything can be modified as long as the general idea stays.

A seaworthy ship is invented in the Maghreb or Iberia a few hundred years early.

Moors, possibly Almoravids, discover the Americas, spreading Islam there and settling to some extent. The discovery occurs either on some ruler's whim, or because Byzantines, Crusaders, and heterodox Muslim Egyptians block eastern trade.

The Spanish states steadily push out the taifas resulting from the fall of whatever dynasty controls most of al-Andalus at the time of the discovery.

After gunpowder arrives in Iberia, the Spaniards perform New World conquests similar to those of OTL, but end up absorbing partially Islamized populations already there.
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