TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuran,Timur
TI  - The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East
SN  - 9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)
U1  - 330.956 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton, Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - 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?
ER  -