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The Great Qing had a corruption issue but that was not what stopped the success of the Self-Strengthening Movement. An often not discussed matter is that the Great Qing for all intents and purposes died in the zenith of the Taiiping Rebellion and other disturbances. The Self-Strengthening...

The Great King of the Universe, Sinbanipal 'He Who is King of the Universe' The Great King of the Universe, Governor of the Great Gods, Master of All Breeds, Avenger of Assur, Defender of the Holy Shrines, and King of Kings, Sinbanipal, He Who Harries the Sinful, stood aloft prepared for a...

The Ottoman Empire in the 16th and early 17th century asserted the notion that the Padishah was the 'World Pole' and was a 'Saintly King' with a special status as the ruler of the whole world, both materially and spiritually. Within the Sufi mystical understanding, this was an eventuality...

No. There has been no example of a Sunni Qiyama except in an implicit sense with the Mughal empire asserting what amounted to a Qiyama. During the 16th and 17th century, we see readings at a Qiyama in the Mughal and Ottoman Empire but never fully enacted. Khawarij tended to avoid top down...

Once the Qiyama occurs in Islamic eschatology, the need for the adherence to the Sharia is no longer necessary as the Islamic body populace will no longer be united by laws and regulations given by Allah through his Prophets, but through direct 'edict' of sorts. All the Muslim would do from...

Anyone who asserts the Taliban as being Khawarij are frankly ignorant of Islamic history of methodology.

The religion utilized by Akbar e-Azam was not to be a religion for the majority or even of most of the court; an esoteric religion that upheld the firmament of universal empire. There is no chance of the religion spread beyond the court elite who held the religion as part of the program of world...

Someone should make a TL about that scenario.

Likely consequence: formation of military governors and warlords as the principle governors in the realms. These sorts of ideas still exist today in various areas, they are just hidden by different customs and taqqiyyah. However, most important was the process of nationalism that swep many...

Oh definitely, Shi'a rebellions would pop up rapidly in response to the success of the Imamate. One would imagine the Fatimid movement occurring faster than otl. The founder the Fatimid movement was in fact living in Iraq during the time of the Zanj rebellion and the failure of the rebellion...

While I am not sure any society would develop an 'industrial revolution' in the same manner as otl, the most likely would be an Indian polity in a different scenario. One thing that I would like to mention too is that industrialization could potentially occur but without the state adjusting to...

The Imamate never was against slavery, only freeing slaves who would pledge allegiance to the divine Imam and then enslaving those who refused and of course, enslaving the Arab slave owners in southern Iraq that refused to submit to the Imam. According to al-Tabari, Mukhtara had a massive slave...

One thing that is being neglected is that there are concerns related to ideological status of states, not only technology and the territorial extent of empires being hampered by 'what could be feasibly controlled.' In the Bronze Age, the Assyrian kingdom really could not swallow the vast...

Unfortunately, a lot of information that was written about the inner workings of the Zanj state led by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Dibaj has been lost, presumably in the 13th or 14th century during the Ilkhanate, so nothing can be said definitively. However, I could expect some different points. The...

There is continuity in Haran, and a few other places through the priestly class. The principle nobility however were eradicated and this group was at the heart of Assyrian expansionism. Assyrian continuity, in the sense of Akkadian imperialism, indeed had no continuity. Aramaic speakers in the...