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The Fatimid Caliphate were Shia Muslims of the Ismaili sect and they ruled over Egypt from 969-1171. However as far as I know the conversion efforts of the Fatimids over the Egyptians were not terribly success. Therefore the Muslims of Egypt stayed overwhelming Sunni to the present day. The POD is that the Fatimids manage to convert the overwhelming majority of Muslims of Egypt to the Islamili sect of Shia Islam. It could have been doable, because Safavid dynasty in Iran managed to turn a lot of subjects of their empire into adherents of the Twelver sect of Shia Islam. Iran before the Safavid took over was predominantly Sunni.
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