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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The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East by Timur Kuran. ISBN 9780691147567. Published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
