The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East/ Timur Kuran.

By: Kuran, TimurMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2011Description: xvi, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)Subject(s): Economic development -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Islamic law -- Economic aspects | Islam -- Economic aspects | Middle East -- Economic conditions | Middle East -- Economic policyDDC classification: 330.956
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?
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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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