ISBN:
9780691147567
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 405 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Additional Information:
Rezension Hanna, Nelly [Rezension von: Kuran, Timur, The long divergence, how Islamic law held back the Middle East] 2012
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Voll, John O. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. By Timur Kuran. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 405. ISBN 978-0-691-14756-7. Hbk. 29.95 2013
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kuran, Timur, 1954 - The long divergence
DDC:
330.956
Keywords:
Unterentwicklung
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Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz
;
Islam
;
Institutionenökonomik
;
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Economic development Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Islamic law Economic aspects
;
Islam Economic aspects
;
Islam
;
Naher Osten
;
Scharia
;
islamisches Recht
;
Middle East Economic policy
;
Middle East Economic conditions
;
Islamisches Recht
;
Entwicklungsgefährdung
Description / 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?
Note:
Literaturverz. S.349-391
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