The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East / Timur Kuran.
By: Kuran, Timur
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BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011Description: xvi, 405 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780691147567 (hbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Economic development -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Islamic law -- Economic aspects | Islam -- Economic aspects| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | HC 415.15 K96 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The puzzle of the Middle East's economic retardation -- Analyzing the economic role of Islam -- Commercial life under Islamic rule -- Stagnation of Islamic commercial organization -- Constraining features of the Islamic inheritance system -- The absence of the corporation in Islamic law -- Barriers to the emergence of a Middle Eastern business corporation -- Credit markets without banks -- The Islamization of non-Muslim economic life -- The ascent of the Middle East's religious minorities -- Origins and fiscal impact of the capitulations -- Foreign privileges as facilitators of impersonal exchange -- The absence of Middle Eastern consuls -- Did Islam inhibit economic development?
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