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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 :
- 0691147566 :
- HC415.15 .K87 2011
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HC 415.15 .K87 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5050240 |
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| HC 415 .15 .H359 2013 Lineages of revolt : issues of contemporary capitalism in the Middle East / | HC 415.15 .H463 2010 Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East / | HC 415.15 .I84 2006 An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa / | HC 415.15 .K87 2011 The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East / | HC 415.15 .N28 2007 Breaking the barriers to higher economic growth : better governance and deeper reforms in the Middle East and North Africa / | HC 415.15 .O63 1998 Opening doors to the world : a new trade agenda for the Middle East / | HC 415.15 .O94 1993 The Middle East in the world economy, 1800-1914 / |
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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