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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
405

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Subjects

Islamic law, Economic conditions, Economic policy, Economic aspects, Economic development, Islam, Middle east, economic conditions, Islam, economic aspects, Middle east, politics and government

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Middle East

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Cover of: Long Divergence
Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
2012, Princeton University Press
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Cover of: Long Divergence
Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
2012, Princeton University Press
in English
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Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
2012, Princeton University Press
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The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East
2011, Princeton University Press
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Table of 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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
330.956
Library of Congress
HC415.15 .K87 2011, HC415.15.K87 2011

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xvi, 405 p. :
Number of pages
405

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OL25085029M
Internet Archive
longdivergenceho00kura
ISBN 13
9780691147567
LCCN
2010017346
OCLC/WorldCat
587249094

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