caliphate

There is no denying that the explosive growth of the early Muslim Caliphates arguably was the greatest act of expansion of a power since Alexander the Great's Empire. At the "high water mark" of the Caliphate, the empire straddled from Aquitaine all the way to India. My question is, in light...

For the past few weeks I've been very interested in the Fatimid Caliphate. As far as I can tell they were very lenient on other religions and sects which really didn't allow their religion, Shia Islam to spread. So, could the Fatimids have somehow spread Shia Islam in North Africa? With this...

Are there any islamic history afficcionados here who could answer my question: how do we make the fatimid caliphate stronger, in territory and influence? Like, could we make them gain Morocco, while also retaining Sicily, for example? Could the fatimids get so strong as to control a huge portion...

Let me elaborate; what I'm specificly looking for is a caliphate after the collapse of the Abbasids. For the purposes of this thread, I'll outline my requisites for a nation to be a "Caliphate". 1). The nation contains a majority of the Muslim world during it's existance 2). The Caliphate...

I was thinking about this earlier but how could a Christian State arise similar to the idea of a Caliphate in Islam? A united Christian nation, Christendom, if you will. I was thinking if the Papal States tried to rule more directly instead of indirectly you could at least have a Catholic...

On November 14, 1914, the Ottoman government issued a call to Jihad on behalf of Sultan-Caliph Mehmed V. The summons exhorted the Muslim subjects of the Entente empires to rise up against these powers in defense of Islam and in support of the Ottoman Caliphate. However, this call to Jihad...

Sorry I'm posting so frequently I have a lot of ideas and questions in my head about Alternate History. So, how could the Sassanid Empire hold off against the Rashidun Caliphate? Is it even possible? Is there anyway that in our modern world we could see a Zoroastrian Persia instead of an...

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