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The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. Timur Kuran argues that what slowed the economic development of the Middle East was not colonialism or geog
| Title | : | The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.56 (314 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0691147566 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2010-12-05 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind--in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead. What caused this long divergence? And why does the Middle East remain drastically underdeveloped compared to the West? In The Long Divergence, one of the world's leading experts on Islamic economic institutions and the economy of the Middle East provides a new answer to these long-debated questions. Timur Kuran argues that what slowed the economic development of the Middle East was not colonialism or geography, still less Muslim attitudes or some incompatibility between Islam and capitalism. Rather, starting around the tenth century, Islamic legal institutions, which had benefitted the Middle Eastern economy in the early centuries of Islam, began to act as a drag on development by slowi
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