WI: Afonso de Albuquerque holds Prophet Mohammad's corpse for ransom?

Albuquerqe was planning on holding Mohammad's corpse for ransom and giving him back only when Muslims leave the holy land. He also was planning on cutting off the Nile from Egypt.

What would happen if he achieved both of those things?
 
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Muslims would have said "Ok, guess you got us" and all the Muslims in the Holy Land would then have done that pretend-to-walk-down-invisible-stairs thing.
 
Albuquerqe was planning on holding Mohammad's corpse for ransom and giving him back only when Muslims leave the holy land. He also was planning on cutting off the Nile from Egypt.

What would happen if he achieved both of those things?

The actual plan was to raid and burn Mecca not to capture a corpse...
 
Wikipedia:

he intended to steal the body of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and hold it for ransom until all Muslims had left the Holy Land.[66][67]

The plans, that were crafted in Lisbon and then sent to India, was to raid Mecca and then captur the Sinai. Also searched the sources and McGregor wrote that Albuquerque suggested to raid Medina to capture the body but he gives no source for that claim.
 
The second sentence of the article on Medina at Wikipedia:

"The city contains al-Masjid an-Nabawi ("the Prophet's Mosque"), which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca."

This article covers the tomb itself and contains a picture of it, or more exactly the screen the Saudis erected to hide it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dome

Reading about the early Caliphs, I knew that Mohamed was buried literally in his house in Medina and the mosque grew up around the site. I did not know that a tomb for Jesus, now empty, was placed next to him.

Anyway, the steal the body scheme is pretty close to ASB but yes there is a body to steal and the tomb is quite well visited.
 
Almost certainly the Muslims in the Holy Land wouldn't agree to evacuate. I'm not sure what the Portuguese would do with the body after the ransom plan failed, although the most likely options would probably be either (i) keep it as a trophy, or (ii) use it as a diplomatic bargaining chip to try and extract more realistic concessions.
 
The Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka might be instructive. The Portuguese captured it in the 17th century and publicly ground the 'teeth idol' to dust. Miraculously, the Sri Lankan king discovered the teeth in his palace the next day. The Enlightened had shown his powers by saving the teeth from the European heretics, and wars between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese Buddhists grew only fiercer.

Very much the same thing would happen in the Islamic world, I imagine.
 
The Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka might be instructive. The Portuguese captured it in the 17th century and publicly ground the 'teeth idol' to dust. Miraculously, the Sri Lankan king discovered the teeth in his palace the next day. The Enlightened had shown his powers by saving the teeth from the European heretics, and wars between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese Buddhists grew only fiercer.

Very much the same thing would happen in the Islamic world, I imagine.
I supsect that those teeth are real, Buddha died 2000 years ago. Even if it real and was burned by portuguese, New teeth may not be actually real but just fabricated teeth forged in order to streghten buddhism in his island.
 
The Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka might be instructive. The Portuguese captured it in the 17th century and publicly ground the 'teeth idol' to dust. Miraculously, the Sri Lankan king discovered the teeth in his palace the next day. The Enlightened had shown his powers by saving the teeth from the European heretics, and wars between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese Buddhists grew only fiercer.

Very much the same thing would happen in the Islamic world, I imagine.
Heh. Reminds me of those saints who apparently had more teeth than a shark.
 
Similarly, it is obvious why Jesus needed help carrying his cross to Calvary ..... if you add up the weight of all the thousands of splinters of the "True Cross" held in Christian churches across Europe, it must have weighed TONS!


Easter is the holiday when Jesus gets re-elected .... as explained by an 8-year old.
 
He also was planning on cutting off the Nile from Egypt.

How does one cut off the nile from egypt?? Doesn't the term "egypt" pretty much refer to whatever power controls the nile?? You might as well try to cut off london from the thames (by diverting the river via a massive canal perhaps????)
 

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There's making people pissed then there's what that guy wants

But diverting the entire Nile into the Qattara may be interesting
 
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