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I'm afraid this is just an idea and not a full TL, though it should be and maybe could grow into one.

On the thread "Saving Rome: is Germania Enough?", Eurofed was accused of "weighting the dice" with multiple favorable POD's or, at least, the best-possible knock on effects. I guess most would call this phenomenon a close cousin of the wank... but, as we know, there are plenty such examples in world history.

Alright, what I'm proposing is to "weight the dice" for Islam. If this scenario is ASB, then I've failed... but if it's plausible, though unlikely and remarkably lucky, that's what I'm going for.

Here's my thought: the siege of Constantinople in 717-18 takes the city. The Bulgars and, later, Moravians convert to Islam. a Byzantine successor state in Sicily and Italy clings tenuously to life.

In 732, an Andalusi reconnaissance in force smashes the Franks under Charles Martel at Tours. A follow-up invasion overwhelms the realm of Firanj; western Germany and Italy, surrounded on both sides, will eventually fall to Islam as well.

With Constantinople in Islamic hands, the Rus will begin to move toward Islam, not Christianity; and if the Khazars become Jewish, there long term survival as such - surrounded by Islamic powers, instead of being able to play rival religions off each other as per OTL - is highly unlikely. The Scandinavians will be an unholy terror, but eventually will embrace the new religion from the south.

England's survival against an Islamic continent is possible, but in this scenario they lose. (This is only the third roll of the dice, after Constantinople and Tours; the rest are pretty obvious knock-ons). Islamic Angalis will achieve hegemony over the Christian Irish, who will serve as an analogue to Wallachia and Moldavia or, more loosely, to Nubia and Ethiopia: a Christian remnant recognizing Islamic political dominance. They may well be Celtic Christian, given the fate of Rome.

I hypothesize that Mediterranean Europe will be largely Arabic speaking by modern times. However, the north, which largely converted of its own accord or at least was minimally settled, will preserve more of its own culture, though taking Arabic loan words and embracing Arabic as the language of religion, diplomacy, and science, like the OTL Persians. And like Persian, languages like Russian and English (written in Arabic, of course) could eventually become important Islamic voices.

I'm not certain about the Turks. They're likely to take over large portions of the Islamic world in the short run. But absent an Anatolian state and homeland (and idk why there would be one, since they don't have to be Ghazis against the Rhomaion), they may be assimilated into Persian and Arabic culture; Turkish may survive, if at all, on the fringes (eg Azerbaijan).

Now, the big one. The nomads north of China are united by an Islamic *Temujin*. Temujin himself is very unlikely, and his conversion to anything - I've read TLs that offer Judaism and Nestorianism - another leap. But it's still plausible.

*Temujin*'s jihad overwhelms the Jin, then turns east (against Khwarezm? and the Abbasids, if they survive) and usurps control over the Caliphate; depending on conditions, he may even proclaim himself caliph. He will certainly not slaughter the caliph and his family.

Either *Temujin* or a *Kublai* like successor turns south against the Song. Now, China, India and/or Islam experts, what does an Islamic China look like? How Islamic is it? Does Islam syncretically coexist with Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and ancestor worship, or does its uncompromising nature lead to a more truly Islamic state?

Next, I posit that *Kublai*'s expeditions to Japan, Vietnam, and Java are successful.

Eventually, the age of sail will take European and perhaps African or East Asian Muslims to the Americas and around the world. Jihad, missionary work, trade and settlement will Islamize the Americas, Africa, and Australia; and the *Mughals* will either be bolstered by trade with correligionists or usurped by them.

What sort of world have we created? I imagine the differences between, say, English and Chinese Islam will be vast. This is a world where the vast majority (say, 3-5.5 of 6 billion) are Muslim. On the other hand, in some ways it will be more culturally diverse, since China, India, Africa, and the Middle East come from the same "world civilization" as TTL's Europe.

Thoughts? Is this TL plausible, even by weighting the dice? Is this a world one would want to live in? Does it deserve a TL?
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