The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East / Timur Kuran.
Publication details: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011.Description: xvi, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)
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- HC415.15 .K87 2011
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330.954920521 ECO Economic Census 2013. | 330.954920521 ECO Economic census 2013. | 330.954922 JAC The economic life of a Bengal district : | 330.956 KUR The long divergence : | 330.956 KUR The long divergence : | 330.956 MOD The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context : | 330.95843086 ENH Enhancing the prospects for growth and trade of the Kyrgyz Republic. |
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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