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Originally Posted by Xellos-_^
if the Ottoman empire never fall and European Colonialism was keep out of the ME. Would radical Islam ever have developed in the first place?
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There will be. Only in rather different flavor and focus. OE was
the Islamic State so it coopted various Islamist movements, especially the Pan-Islamist bent ones. The difference here is that, without the abject self-esteem crisis we see today among muslims they will be less concerned about erratically differentiating themselves from imperialist infidels and more into assisting decolonization process by any means they deem necessary as their defining characteristic.
And now, on the topic of
culture....
It seems a natural follow up to imagine something like a movie format of
Muhteşem Yüzyıl standing among the blockbuster classical epics contemporary with Ben Hur, or at least among the younger line of classical epic blockbusters. Definitely not a novel, recent thing like IOTL. Osmanli Cinema Industry in general is quite possible to become a genuine equal to its American counterpart, sooner or later, exporting everything ranging from corny soap operas to decadent Istanbul-themed actions to generic medieval Islamia adventures to gritty vendettafest dramas based on Albanian mafia-dom. "Maria Mercedez" will have a worthy opponent in "Hatice My Sweet Heart". Turkey is a good enough mix of European and Oriental to appeal to people all over the developing world.
The million dollars question here would be : what'd become of anime/manga ? With Alladin and Saudi money alone, we got to see Turbans in Dragon Quest series and few other '80s stuff, and it also gave us
Arslan but that's as far as it got. With more popularity and familiarity of middle eastern and Islamic culture, one would wonder what it will do to Saint Seiya. What it will do Gundam ? To Code Geass ? To
Evangelion ?