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MUSLIM POLITICS SO FAR

Umayyad caliphate: Defeated after the abbasid take over, they retreat to corduba and establish there control from their, which is further undermined by the rise of the Alhomad empire based in Tunis. However finding an unlikely alliance with the byzantines (By the 1400s more religiously tolerant and playing the muslim nations against eachother) and defeat the alhomads at the battle of carthage. They continue as a north african empire against the spanish christian nations, attempting to take over their last territories in spain (granada). They are fighting the mamluks for control of egypt until the ottomon takeover in 1453, defeating the mamluks and seljuks combined and taking Damascus in 1443 and 10 years later, Alexandria. After a period of decline in the 1700s, and then the scramble for africa, the Umayyad caliphate are defeated against the french but reform into the Umayyad republic.

Ottomon Empire: Once a lowly Seljuq noble house in the Seljuq sultanate of Rum, they retreated eastwards after the fall of Rum. However their fortune turned as the crusader states, most notably the county of Tripoli and the Kingdom of Jerusalem were beginning to falter after their support began to erode from europe as all eyes turned to the war in hispania. After the capture of Damascus in 1443, Ottomons turned their eyes to the fertil lands of egypt where they captured the Mamluk capital of Cairo sending them into exile into the Byzantine Empire and then to the Umayyad caliphate until their return in 1813 after the byzantine capture of Alexandria. However from the 1700s, began a slow decline for the empire. As the Byzantine empire and the Seljuk Sultanate slowly strangled the ottomons, more and more territory fell into the hands of hostile foreigners. After its fall in the great war (1914-1923), it was restablished into the ottomon republic. However the rivalry between the ottomons and seljuks continues to this day.

Seljuk Sultanate: The Seljuk empire is one of the most prosperous of nations as it benefited from Byzantine trade after hostilities ceased when the the sultanate of Rum was deposed. It once stood as the greatest islamic empire in the middle ages nearly destroying the Byzantine empire. However hostilities between the Fatimids and then the Mamluks prompted the rise of the ottomons who originally were a lowly Rum noble family and soon took over all of the levant, saudi arabia and much of north africa. Its power eroded from the mongol takeover )who eventually just were absorbed into the empire) weakened it. By the 1700s however, the Byzantines soon began to open relations with the Seljuks and benefiting from trade, began to retake most of it persian territory although they were unable to recapture baghdad in the great war.Today it stands as one of the great middle eastern powers rivalling the byzantine empire