arabia

When the last Nabataean king Rabbel II Soter died his kingdom was annexed. How and why the Nabataean kingdom was annexed is unclear, but there is evidence of minor military skirmishes. Aside from that there wasn't much resistance to the annexation. The Romans initially did not want to govern...

173 CE - I’ve been doing a project for a while now on What if Rome Never Rose? And I’ve kinda developed a scenario out where a Parthian-Ptolemaic rivalry develops. However now I’m at a pivotal point where a foreign conqueror from Arabia known as Idil ‘The Conqueror’ has now rose to change Arabia...

When king Rabbel II Soter, one of Rome's client kings, died his kingdom was annexed. The manner and the formal reasons for the annexation are unclear, but there is evidence of some military involvement. There wasn't much resistance to the annexation. The Romans initially did not want to govern...

Plausibility Check on one of the Caliphates (Abbasid or Ottomans) surviving to the present day as a primarily religious state, similar to the Papal States or the Vatican. Also threw in the possibly of a new Caliphate under the Saudis. Some possible POD's: 1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad, but...

please answer the follow up questions and like and the share the post 2613BCE Sneferu begins Fourth Dynasty of Egypt POD Sneferu raids Jordan he encounters camels (which were already been domesticated in Arabia). He incorporates them into his army replacing donkeys and creating a camel cavalry...

From what I've read, the Sykes-Picot agreement really wasn't at all like the ultimate outcome in the Middle East post-WWI. The basic spheres of influence largely aligned (with some exceptions, ie. France getting Mosul) but at this point there were no plans regarding mandates and establishing...

So I’ve seen lots of what if’s regarding Greek and Roman conquests of Arabia. But, I don’t recall any regarding a Persian conquest of Arabia. So, what if one of the Persian dynasties conquered the entire Arabian coastline ? Could Arabia, or its coastal hinterlands, be Persianized ? Could...

The question is short and sweet, Muhammad never founds Islam so if the Arab tribes were to unify under a branch of Christianity, which form was the most likely for them to adopt? I personally think Nestorianism was the biggest candidate bit I'd like to know the odds for the other options as well...

How could the Brits get control over the majority of the Arabian Peninsula around the time of the Berlin Convention or later? Is it even possible? This my first post over at alternatehistory.com, so sorry if I keep asking weird "What if?" scenarios. :)

I have in my time making my timeline discovered more about the early islamic years on these is that according to that Abu Bark by some sources he did not pray to idols unlike most, later sources say he was Ḥanīf ie a non idiolater who worhsiped god, so desptie been unlikely lets assume in ALT...

For a bit of background, Usman ibn Huwayrith, operating within political, societal, economic, and religious changes within the Arab world that would allow the rise of Islam, was an Arab of the Quraish tribe that converted to Christianity and revolted against idol worship in Mecca, during a...

After the rise of Islam, Arabia was able to not only go toe-to-toe with two of the most powerful empires of its day, but destroy one and give the other a severe beating. This was an enormously pivotal event in world history, and some historians consider it to have been one of the events that...

OTL, Egpyt went from 30 BCE to 868 as a province of another power, a far cry from the bronze age powerhouse of yestermillenia. But even pre-roman conquests, Egypt's empire wasn't the largest (even if it was one of the wealthiest.) But the idea of a Bigger Egypt has always fascinated me, and so I...

It's without a doubt that Persia has has highly influenced Islam and the Caliphate in its early history. In fact, the Persians had formed the backbone of the Abbasid administration and most scholars of the Islamic golden age were Persian. So therefore I pose a question: What future does the...

The Arab Revolt lasted from June 1916-October 1918. It was launched with the hope of forming a Pan Arab state "stretching from Aleppo, Syria to Aden, Yemen." However, the British renegated on their agreement to support this, instead carving up the Middle East into mandates alongside France...

So, in an ATL where Britain stays out of WWI (German respect of Belgium, better pre-war relations with Germany, an earlier Irish imbroglio, etc), what chance is there that London would still try something in the Ottoman Empire? I would assume a July Crisis that sees Britain “Happily...”...

POD of 1918 Make North Yemen be annexed as a Permanent part of Saudi Arabia by 1939 that remains all the way to this alternate present. When looking at how the Saudis took over many Arab Kingdoms such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz I always thought it was weird that yemen was the only...

When it comes to alternate history, Arabs tend to get focused on only in timelines where the POD is during or after the rise of Islam. The reasons for this may be understandable, but since the Old Arabic language dates back to at least the mid-9th century BCE, there's a lot of Arab history that...

In Islamic history, the Year of the Elephant is when Usurper general Abraha, ruler of Askumite Controlled South-Western Arabia, Is stopped in his tracks by a miraculous plague, as he attempts to conquer Medina, and possibly all of the Hejaz. What happens if he succeeds and Islam is never born, I...

Simply put, it was the Anglo-French plan to split the Middle East. Something done behind the backs of the Arab peoples. Who had been promised independence from the Ottoman Empire. drawing on what was going then IOTL, what would have happened had this agreement never happened?