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

By: Publication details: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011.Description: xvi, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.956 22
LOC classification:
  • HC415.15 .K87 2011
Contents:
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.

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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