Kuran The Long Divergence

How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3601-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuran, Timur

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

PART I Introduction

Chapter 1: The Puzzle of the Middle East's

Economic Underdevelopment 3

Chapter 2: Analyzing the Economic Role of Islam 25

PART II Organizational Stagnation

Chapter 3: Commercial Life under Islamic Rule 45

Chapter 4: The Persistent Simplicity of Islamic Partnerships 63

Chapter 5: Drawbacks of the Islamic Inheritance System 78

Chapter 6: The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law 97

Chapter 7: Barriers to the Emergence of a Middle Eastern Business Corporation 117

Chapter 8: Credit Markets without Banks 143

PART III The Makings of Underdevelopment

Chapter 9: The Islamization of Non-Muslim Economic Life 169

Chapter 10: The Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities 189

Chapter 11: Origins and Fiscal Impact of the Capitulations 209

Chapter 12: Foreign Privileges as Facilitators of Impersonal Exchange 228

Chapter 13: The Absence of Middle Eastern Consuls 254

PART IV Conclusions

Chapter 14: Did Islam Inhibit Economic Development? 279

Notes 303

References 349

Index 393

Über Autor(innen)

Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton).