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Well, IHP is set after the birth of Al-Ghazzali, whom HT ID's as being pretty unhelpful to the notion of scientific advancement in the Muslim world. And of course Western Europe is pretty stunted thanks to the plagues and Henri didn't help. With AoB, it's debatable--certain advancements did come fast, but others were more or less on schedule, or arguably later.

It occurs to me that "Islands in the Sea" would be an ideal POD for such a project. That came on the cusp of Islam's Golden Age in OTL; nothing suggested that Muslims were going to suddenly got the other direction just because they were expanding into Europe.