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AH tropes on Islam/common AH loops of Islam centered TLs
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That's because unlike Christianity, Islam has a rather solid framework of how to do things. Just take a look at the 3 dominant creeds...
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744; The Alids, A Better Caliphate
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Part 2: This Timeline This timeline is quite different from what the early Abbasids had. Namely by the fact that it has 2 power bases...
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WI: Second Arab Siege of Constantinople (717-718) succeeds
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I think the conquest of Constantinople could prevent the fall of the Umayyads. OTL, the failure of Constantinople led to the loss of...
Sunday at 7:21 PM
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Part 1: The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate TL;DR: The main reason for the fall of the Caliphate and end of the Golden Age was the...
Saturday at 11:12 PM
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For all practical purposes, except for religion, Byzantine Empire was pretty much irrelevant in this regard. Reasonably unified Russian...
Saturday at 12:18 PM
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How Isolated Would Vinland be in the Little Ice Age?
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An army of perhaps 5000. It took 110 years to send that 1200 miles along known waterways, in an area of the world where there were far...
Friday at 10:26 PM
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AHC: Rashidun Wank (644 PoD)
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Heck, if they just reach the Straights of Gibraltar early, that alone is pretty big; in conjunction with not getting distracted after...
Friday at 6:34 PM
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The New Order: A Successful Selim III
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------------------ Part 19: Death of an Empire, (Re) Birth of Another While Napoleon's invasion of Spain is usually seen as the...
May 23, 2024
Halcyon Days
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Well like OP said, Umar avoiding assassination doesn’t have to be the PoD. Though for what it’s worth, the killer OTL was reportedly a...
May 23, 2024
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Gokturks conquer Sassanid Empire
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I asked mongol historian jack "the Khwarezmian Empire. The Khwarezmain realm was very strong on paper, but a bit of a giant with feet...
May 16, 2024
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WI: Umar ibn Hafsun defeats the Umayyads - Mozarab/Muladí Al-Andalus
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I will extrapolate a situation using the Banu qasi in a good situation. They made the correct decisions in the revolt and managed to...
May 10, 2024
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------------------ Part 18: An Eagle Reborn As with almost every European colony in the early 19th century, the Viceroyalty of New...
May 1, 2024
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Maybe he puts something related to the Visigoths in the name of the dynasty? Especially due to the authority he received for being "part...
Apr 29, 2024
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I appreciate your post, and your knowledge on the subject is very impressive and informative. I agree with pretty much all of your...
Apr 29, 2024
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They also discriminated against Berbers. The Iberian social pyramid in the period was in this sequence: Arabs, Berbers, Muladi (Iberians...
Apr 29, 2024
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