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Introduction A nation in flux, Nigeria buzzed with anticipation and trepidation. The political winds of change swept the landscape as the 1993 presidential campaign unfolded. Two titans, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC), stood at the forefront of a...

In mid 744, after the assassination of Walid ii, at the site of the prophet's mother's grave (alAbwa), the majority of Banu Hashim, including the Abbasids: Ibrahim al imam, Saffah and AlMansur, all pledged fealty to Muhammad ibn Abdullah anNafs azZakiyyah. The Abbasids won the loyalty of...

As the title says, i want to know if there was any chance for a Muslim to become the Emperor of Rome. I dont mean someone like the Ottomans taking the title of Byzantine/Roman Emperors, i mean a Muslim guy manages to outwit the Byzantine powercenters and insert himself onto Emperorship. It...

Say, one of the heads of the players in Europe during the Early Modern Era has a crisis of faith and just so happens to stumble upon the Qur'an as translated by Mark of Toledo. The more interesting potential converts seem to be Isabella, Charles V, and Louis XIII in my view. The English are...

So, for some time i had this idea. As you may know, the First Crusade was a clusterball of disasters somehow succeeding. One of the main reasons for their success, if not *the* main reason, was Muslim disunity. The area between Constantinople and the Sinai was perhaps the least united it had...

Quranism refers to Muslims who reject the Hadiths and consider the Quran to be the sole source of divine authority. What is the best way throughout history to make them a mainstream sect of Islam comprising a majority in certain regions? Would that involve an Islamic Reformation along the lines...

Howdy y’all, long time reader first time poster. This is a very rough concept as of yet, but I’ve had it on the brain and would like to develop it further, thought I would see if anybody has any ideas. Basically: I’m envisioning a version of the American West in which the U.S. Camel Corps was...

On 1570, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi land in Ysla de Luzon or Ysla de Tagala[1] where he would find two Sultanates, the Sultanate of Selurong and the Sultanate of Kumintang which the Spanish would record as Tagala and Comintan, the Sultan of Kumintang would be friendly to the Spanish and even gave...

Apparently, many early Islamic scholars believed that the Buddha was one of many previous prophets sent by God whose message was corrupted by his followers. So what if based upon this idea, Early Islam ingratiated itself with as many Buddhist principles as it could and become syncretic (to at...

What if the Arabs succesfully took Constaninople during the first siege in 674-678? Would they be able to take the entire Roman Empire as they did the Persian? Or would the Empire be able to succeed and relocate its capital? What would this fall mean for the future of the Orthodox Church? How...

I was reading about these extinct Shia sects, could any of them have survived or grown as larger movements? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_Shia_sects

In OTL, the Turkish, nomadic groups that would become Ottomans converted to Islam around the 8th and 9th century AD after continued interaction with the Abbasid Caliphate. These Turks would go on to become the Ottoman Empire, capture Constantinople, and conquer the Balkans. But lets take a...

A chief of Bohol named Catunao would guide Miguel Lopez de Legazpi as a guide to Cebu and he would anchor in Cebu but he would not land due to opposition with the natives and he would be able to ally with the natives of Samar and Bohol and making blood compacts with their chieftains. Rajah...

Your challenge is to create a 4th major Abrahamic religion, with at least as many adherants as Judaism. You can uplift a group like the Druze, or take an extinct movement and wank them, or push a fringe denomination into becoming its own religion - regardless of your method, there needs to be...

Unless I'm mistaken, my understanding was that under the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates, most if not all islamic lands were unified politically under a single Caliphate. The Umayyads were succeeded by the Abbasids, which, while retaining most of the Islamic world, lost Iberia and some other...

On 1570 the Spanish would be opposed by the Selurong Sultanate, despite the fact that Lakandula and Sulayman are welcoming to the Spanish, the Muslims in Luzon or Selurong led by the Selurong Sultanate would oppose the Spanish forcing them to settle just in Manila and Tondo which was given by...

Hello. I'm writing this TL: the Southern Roman Empire. Where a different version of Islam developes. I open this thread to not fill the main one. But the question is simple. Aisha won the battle of the Camel. How is changed Islam? What happened to Alids? And to the Ahl al Bayt?

I am a little bit tired of Scifi. So i'll start this new project (not new at all, being another setting for GURPS i'll created many years ago). In This timeline, Heraclius the Younger, instead of sailing from Carthage to Constantinople, decided to stay in African City, dooming the Empire in the...

“On the 16th century a Sultanate would form in Selurong in the roots of Cagayan and Pampanga River which would later conquer majority of the Nueva Castilla held by the Spanish in the 1660s and backstabbing the Christian rebels led by Malong, Maniago, and Almazan, the Spanish would have kept...

First post doing this but it’s better giving it a try anyways. I’ve always had the thought that the Roman Republic would have endured throughout if the campaigns in Gaul by Julius Caesar would have been unsuccessful and caused the defeat of the romans at the hands of the Gauls or on the other...