WI: Uyghurs stay Manichaean

[Mort the Reaper]

After Sogdia was conquered by the Muslims, numerous Sogdian refugees came to the Uyghur Khaganate. There, they converted the Uyghur nobility to Manichaeism, and Manichaeism became the Khaganate's state religion.

What if the Uyghurs had stayed Manichaean?

 

[Anawrahta]

After Sogdia was conquered by the Muslims, numerous Sogdian refugees came to the Uyghur Khaganate. There, they converted the Uyghur nobility to Manichaeism, and Manichaeism became the Khaganate's state religion.

What if the Uyghurs had stayed Manichaean?

They would remain manichaean had not the Moghulistan conquered the Kara-Khoja. The best POD would have the Tang Conquest of Tarim basin go better for Kucha and karashahr, and the uyghurs migrate to Turfan instead. Kucha, Karashahr, Khotan hold back the Karakhanids.