Muslim world 1400-1450 (Chaos)

Since 1400: Shi'ite rulers of start persecuting the Ismailite minority. The fight back, but have lost their edge.
1402: make an alliance with the Barbary pirates of North Africa. Their first combined strike goes against , which loses its islands in the Aegaean Sea.
1406: Rum-Seljuks try to conquer and are surprisingly beaten back by the Montenegrins.
1409/10: Rum-Seljuks conquer the Peloponnes, plus the Venetian islands in the Aegaean Sea. A bit later, the Ionian islands also fall.
1414-18: For the first time for centuries, people in are horrified again of "Asian hordes": A Seljuk-Barbary fleet crosses the Adria, lands near Taranto / Otranto, sweeps through Apulia. The king of is horrified and asks anyone he can contact for help. Not that successful: is still locked in a hard war with and ; the Hungarian king would actually like to help, but the powerful nobles forbid him to send an army south while proper is threatened; the northern Italian states are busy mopping up the smaller states in the region. The pope calls for a crusade, but even that doesn't help much. Being desperate, the king makes an alliance with Naples' old enemy, , ceding officially, for once and ever, to them. The new alliance manages to defeat the Seljuks in the South. Especially their cannons help them a lot to reconquer the cities. Only Taranto and Bari in Apulia are held by the Seljuks. In 1418, an armistice is made - but both sides plan to restart war, when the time is right.
1425-36: The . After the Seljuks managed to hire an expatriate Italian willing to equip their army with cannons, they restart the war.
1426: King Ferran of Aragon takes Oran for Christianity.
1427: France enters the war on Naples' side.
1429: Circass dynasty comes to power in .
1431: After the French almost managed to defeat the Rum-Seljuks, the latter are exceptionally lucky: During the battle, the king is captured. He has to promise to leave the war to be released again. Now the tides of war turn again.
1436: The greater part of Naples becomes Seljuk. Only the western third with Pescara, Benevent, and Naples itself survives as a tributary.
1440s: The (charburners), the anti-Seljuk resistance in Naples, start to form.
1441: Palestine (including the Sinai) becomes Seljuk.
1445: The Holy Cities of Islam, and , accept the Rum-Seljuk sultan as Caliph.
1448: loses Dalmatia to the Seljuks, only keeps Istria.
1449: Rasulids in completely defeated by Zaidites.