How much of a united empire was the Abbassid Calipihate? Was

>>1566105
By the 900s AD it was more of a >Holy >Roman >Empire. Especially when the Turkics came in and created shitloads of semi-independent states paying lip service to the Abbasid Caliphate.

And then there's the real breakaways like the Fatimids.

Or to be more tame: you could talk of a Commonwealth of Islam.

In reality

That's a map of

>Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Cities
>Iraq
>The Maghreb
>Persian influenced areas

>>1566105
They mirror the Carolingians. They both started off strong and unified about 750 but disintegrated in the mid-9th century and, despite later reemergences, never recovered their former power.

After 945 they were ruled by the Shia Buyids and then Sunni Turks before regaining independence between 1157 and the Mongols conquest in 1258. Up until the Mongols they still maintained their religious and cultural importance regardless of political matters.