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So having done research lately on Umayyad Al-Andalus, it appears that a big factor in the Umayyad Caliphate’s fall which triggered the Berber Revolt and the Abbasid Revolution that exiled the Umayyads to Iberia was its oppressive policies towards non-Arabs. And while the Umayyads in Al-Andalus...

This seems to be one of the potentially most pivotal possible turning points in history. In 716, the Eastern Roman Empire was weakened by the Twenty Year’s Anarchy. The Umayyad Caliph, already overseeing an empire that stretched from Hispania to India, launched an invasion of Asia Minor, and by...

OTL, In April 744 Yazid iii mentioned he would implement the following policies: Not to build any buildings of stone or brick, nor to dig any canals. (Referring to palaces and private gardens) Not to hoard wealth. Not to give wealth to wives or children. To transfer wealth from one province to...

Problems with Damascus: The Umayyads chose Damascus as their capital, but while it's a good, centrally located Levantine capital, it seems to me to be a poor capital for a Caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Indus. Firstly Damascus is quite isolated. Landlocked with no Navigable...

In 647, outside the temporary capital of the exarchate of Africa, Sufetula, the Muslims crushed the Roman army, killing the exarch Gregory. Leaving the rest of the Roman Maghreb defenceless. Commanded by some of the most senior of companions of the prophet: But instead of pressing on, they...

Chapter 1: The Jump In the year 1821, the Arabian Peninsula was a tumultuous region marked by geopolitical shifts and power struggles. It was during this time that Jaber I Al-Sabah, a shrewd and ambitious leader, seized upon the opportunity presented by the Greek War of Independence to declare...

so I made a map of an alternate sykes-picot dark blue = French colonies dark red = British colonies light blue = French zone of influence light red = British zone of influence the two zones of influence make up a united Arab Kingdom

With a POD of November 29, 1947, is it possible for the Arab coalition to defeat the Israelis after they declare their independence in 1948? Maybe some nation (Either the US or the Soviets) provides material and military assistance to the Arabs? Could the Israeli forces be weakened? I know that...

either Abdallah dies as infant or in Kutama tribes and the Fatimid caliphate never exist, how would the maghreb evolve? and how long will the Ikhshidid dynasty have control in Egypt

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...

As some one who thinks their speciality is the 7th century Iam kinda of sick of yarmourk and Sebastopolis I get it they are the one that make more change but there is more to it so I propose this What if while Heraclius sent his men to the eagle pass and Khalid left whether to sending the...

As the tin says, what if Khosrow II accepted the offer Heraclius made in 615 when, per Wikipedia, he “agreed to stand down and was about ready to allow the Byzantine Empire to become a Persian client state, even permitting Khosrow II to choose the emperor.[20] In a letter delivered by his...

A little clickbaits title but was his the best case scenario for Zahir al-Umar state in what his southern Levant ?

The Qedarites were an Arab tribe or confederation active from the 9th-4th centuries BC, present just south of Mesopotamia, and parts of Sina, mentioned in both the bible, Assyrian sources, and Persian, Greek, and Roman sources. The Arabs were first attested in the written record when Gindibu...

Would Italy have lost her territories gained during the war(like Savoy, Corsica, Cattaro, Dalmatia and Lubiana)? Would have Yugoslavia not being divided into East and West ? What else would have happened? Would have Kingdom of Syria exist today? What are your thoughts about it?

Your challenge is for the Fertile Plan to be enacted (Jordan,Syria,Lebanon and Iraq ) to be united then to have an Italy that changes sides but that it can have better terms with the Allies. For the first I think a British ship that wasn't sunk by Vichy OTL could instead be actually sunk (I...

What are you predictions/opinions/other if the people below lived longer (like up to 90 years or age)? Enrico Mattei Adriano Olivetti Aldo Moro Fuad I of Egypt Thomas Sankara Che Guevara Thomas Lumumba Sir Seretse Khama Abdullah I of Jordan Bruce Lee Yukio Mishima Salvador Allende Peron...

As the title says, how the world changes with 10 year before created Israel?

The Battle of the Masts was one of the most pivotal and disastrous naval battles in Byzantine history. Most of the 500 ships were destroyed in a day, and it proved the mettle of the Muslims on the seas. Emperor Constans II barely escaped by trading clothes with another man and being disguised as...

Like the title says, make the population of Syria higher than OTL. The POD is year 1920.