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... in a world dominated by Islam.

To paint a clearer picture, most of this alternate world is dominated by Islamic polities. Iberia solidly Muslim, as is much of Italy, southern Russia/the Caucasus/Ukraine, and possibly parts of southern France and the Balkans. West and East Africa as far inland as Lake Victoria - Muslim. Central Asia - Muslim. India - mostly ruled by Muslim polities, ditto for Southeast Asia.
Islam was the primary colonizing force in the New World(s), with the *Americas and *Australia firmly part of the Ummah.

There were no Crusades or Mongol Invasions in this timeline, and the Islamic world has developed the scientific method and all the social/economic/political/technological prerequisites for industrialization.

But which part of the Dar al-Islam tips the balance and industrialized first? Which part of this world - mostly based on availability of resources - is most likely to be the home of the alt-Industrial Revolution?
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