Quote Originally Posted by Artanis View Post
Pretty much, yeah. There's a couple others like that in the game too (the Miawhatsits below Egypt come to mind).
The Miaphysites are actually competent, though - if you can surge north and take Egypt in the middle of an Abbasid civil war, you've got sea access and your Pope reinstated and can form the Empire of Abyssinia. You can also marry Christians for allies, and use mercenaries. With West Africa, marriage to anyone else is out of the question, you have a single rubbish merc you share with everyone else in Africa, and the Umayyads roflstomp the Idrisids pretty quick and then sit around having ridiculous stability.