WI: The Turks do not convert to Islam?

IOTL, the Turks were lucky enough to invade the Middle East at the time that Sufism and its focus on conversion and assimilation were in vogue, allowing them to integrate into Muslim society easily. What might have happened if, say, the Turks refused to convert, or Sufism was less powerful or nonexistent at the time?

Would the Turks still reach Constantinople? Would they be powerful enough to form an empire of the likes of what they did? Could Tengriism take hold in the Middle East or even Europe?
 
Some would convert and integrate and the others would basically become like the Mongols, a nomadic group with its own spiritual beliefs whom are'nt particularly important.
 
Most of early turkic take-overs were made by former slaves (as Ghaznavid), meaning they were islamized quite quickly without a real choice on that matter (less forced conversion than strongly advised conversion).

Eventually, if one wanted to rise socially inside Arabo-Islamic world, conversion was a condition sine que non.
Furthermore, at the exception of other Abrahamic faiths, Islamization was necessary to be recognized as an entity worth of being considered.

If for some reason (by exemple Slave revolts in X are much more destructive, making the use of saqaliba armies looking more dangerous) Turkish peoples didn't had an incitative to convert and to be islamized as OTL, there's little chances they'll manage to take on all the Middle-East, and to set up ruling dynasties : they simply didn't had the military power for that.

For Tengrism...I doubt it : it seems Turks, at the contact of Khazars and Nestorian missionaries, where pretty much approached by biblical religions.
Eventually, I think they'll do as Mongols in the same era, aka, adopting a given religion while not being too stressed about enforcing it to their subjects of different beliefs.
 
If they didn't convert then i'd say that the Byzantine empire would've lasted a lot longer.

Why? Without Türks meddling in Middle-East, Buyids wouldn't likely keep control of Persia as much they did OTL, as they were already pretty much declining in the late Xth century.

Abbassids, being relieved of a Shia pressure on their eastern borders, as well than an embarassant Shia tutelage, would eventually benefit from the disapperence or decline of rivaling caliphates (Umayyads, Fatimids) and have a more firm grip on Middle-East.

Byzance could have not known the XI crisis as it happened, but Abassids without serious rival in the Arabo-Islamic world isn't going to delight them much : actually, one source of legitimacy they'll need would be to prevent Byzance to feel too comfortable.

With such a PoD, honestly, Constantinople can go either way.
 
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