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Kuran, Timur.

The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East / Timur Kuran. - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011. - xvi, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

ISBN: 9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010017346

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic development--Religious aspects--Islam.
Islamic law--Economic aspects.
Islam--Economic aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--Economic conditions.
Middle East--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: HC415.15 / .K87 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 330.956