The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?