Not just for the obvious reason of Islam potentially never expanding there, but also because the Mongols wouldn't come across muslims in Baghdad, they'd encounter christians and Zoroastrians, who might have a slight shock at the brutality of the Mongols assuming that all plays out the same, but wouldn't absorb it as a theological reckoning the way Salafists eventually would.Īlso, massive linguistic implications for basically the entirety of North Africa, remaining eternally Grecco-Latin, Central Asia would be dominated by Buddhism, Indonesia would practice a blend of local traditions and Hindu Buddhism and the straight of Malacca wouldn't be named the straight of Malacca because Malacca would never have become a big enough deal to name the straight after it. I'm imagining an amusing reversal where North Africa is perennially attached to the European and Christian world while Southern Africa becomes predominantly Muslim, likely a brand of Islam much more aligned with Malian Islam, which was noted as being highly blended with Subsaharan beliefs.Īlso there'd be no Taliban or equivalent force.
With that route blocked off by what might even be a dual monarchy by that point assuming enough fraternity is formed in mutual defense, the Islamic world would expand southwards, into the African Horn, and into the subsahara. The Rashidun blatantly exploited a vulnerable moment in both empires due to having just fought a knock down drag out fight over ultimately nothing to expand northwards out of the peninsula.
The consequence of this being achieved however would be the containment of the Islamic world to the Arabian peninsula and wherever it could expand to outside of those powers though. It would require more or less a complete mindset change or a particularly brutal incursion of outsiders to both empires for them to make such a resounding peace. Rome not wanting to financially back Persia in doing exactly that in the caucuses was the trigger point for the wars between Justinian and Khosrau
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