The long divergence :
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.
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?
9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)
2010017346
HC415.15 / .K87 2011
330.956
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.
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?
9780691147567 (hc : alk. paper)
2010017346
HC415.15 / .K87 2011
330.956