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Article: “Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation”

July 1, 20042000-2004, Arabic - العربية, Chinese - 中文, Islam & economic development, Italian - ItalianoDuke Economics

“Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (Summer 2004): 71-90.

Reprint: The Development Economics Reader, ed. Giorgio Secondi (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 107-25.
Chinese translation: “Zhong Dong Di Qu He Yi Jing Ji Luo Hou: Jing Ji Ting Zhi De Li Shi Ji Li.” Kai Fang Shi Dai (Open Times), 183 (March 2006): 89-105.
Arabic translation: “Asbāb Takhalluf al-Sharq al-Awsat Iqtisadiyyan Al-Āliyyat al-Tārikhiyyah lil-Rukūd al-Mu‘assasatiy.”http://www.misbahalhurriyya.org, April 2006.
Italian translation: “Perché il Medio Oriente è Economicamente Arretrato: Meccanismi Storici di Stagnazione Istituzionale.” QA: Rivista dell’ Associazione Manlio Rossi-Doria, 2005: 45-73.

Book: Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism

January 1, 20042000-2004, Arabic - العربية, Economics & religion, Islam & economic development, Islamic economics, Islamism, contemporary, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), xviii + 194 pp.

Arabic translation: Al-Islam wal-Thara’al-Fahish: Ma’zaq al-Iqtisad al-Islami (Amman: al-Ahliyya, 2012).
South Asian edition (New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2006).
Turkish translation: İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri, by Yasemin Tezgiden, with an original introduction (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002), 303 pp.

Article: “Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds”

January 1, 20002000-2004, Islam & economic development, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds ,” in Kemal Çiçek (ed.), The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilization , vol. 2 (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2000), pp. 43-59.

Turkish translation: “Osmanlı Lonca Teşkilâtı Üzerinde İslâmî Etkiler,” in Güler Eren (ed.), Osmanlı, vol. 3 (Ankara : Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 2000), pp. 97-112.

Article: “The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity”

July 15, 19971990-1999, Islamism, contemporary, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity ,”Social Research, 64 (Summer 1997): 301-338.

Reprint: Islam and Globalization, vol. 4, ed. Shahram Akbarzadeh (New York: Routledge, 2006): 116-42.
Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâm Ekonomisinin Doğuşu: Yaralı Müslüman Kimliğini Tedavi Girişimi,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 147-79.

Article: “Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited”

March 1, 19971990-1999, French - Français, Islam & economic development, Persian - فارسی, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“Islam and underdevelopment: An old puzzle revisited,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 153 (March 1997): 41-71. Abstract

Farsi translation (by Yadullah Dadgar): Naqd va Nazar, 3 (Winter 1997): 310-53.
French translation: “L’Islam et le sous-développement: Un vieux puzzle revisité,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines , 8 (March 1998): 27-60.
Turkish translation (by Cihan Dansuk and Timur Kuran): “İslâm ve Geri Kalmışlık: Eski Bir Muammaya Çözüm Arayışları,” Birikim, 137 (September 2000): 68-89. Revised form reprinted in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (Istanbul : İletişim, 2002): 211-253.

Article: “Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society”

February 5, 19971990-1999, Islamic economics, Islamism, contemporary, Italian - Italiano, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society,” in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and Public Policy [International Review of Comparative Public Policy, vol. 9] (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1997): 72-102. Abstract

Italian translation (by Anna Caffarena): “La dottrina economica dell’Islam: Una visione alternativa,” Biblioteca della Libertà , 139 (March-April 1997): 35-67.
Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâmcılık ve Ekonomi: Hür Bir Toplum İçin Politika Önerileri,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 101-146.
Updated version: in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and the Everyday World:: Public Policy Dilemmas (New York: Routledge, 2008): 38-65.

Article: “Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy”

October 15, 19951990-1999, Islamic economics, Islamism, contemporary, Russian - Pусский, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (Fall 1995): 155-173. Abstract

Russian translation (by Alina Raskov): “Islamskaia ekonomicheskaia mysl’ i Islamskaia ekonomika,” in Hristianstvo i Islam ob Ekonomike, ed. Danila Raskov (St. Petersburg: NPK Rost, 2008), 279-304.
Reprint: Islamic Finance, ed. M. Kabir Hassan and Mervyn K. Lewis (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward J. Elgar, 2007): 141-159.
Reprint: Islam and Globalization, vol. 4, ed. Shahram Akbarzadeh (New York: Routledge, 2006), 11-31.
Reprint: Economics and Religion, vol. 2, ed. Paul Oslington (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward J. Elgar, 2003): 277-95.
Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâm Ekonomisi ve İslâmî Alt-Ekonomi,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 73-100.
Reprint: The Political Economy of the Middle East, vol. 3, ed. Timothy Niblock and Rodney Wilson (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward J. Elgar, 1999), 57-75.

Book: Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

January 1, 19951990-1999, Chinese - 中文, Ethnic & racial conflict, German - Deutsch, Preference falsification, Russian - Pусский, Social mechanisms, Swedish - Svensk, Turkish - TürkçeRevolutionTimur Kuran

Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), xv + 423 pp.

Russian translation (by Irina Soboleva), with an additional preface: in press, 2016.
Chinese translation (by Ding Zhen Huan and Ou Yang Wu): Pian Hao Wei Zhuang De She Hui Huo Guo (Changchun: Changchun Publishing House, 2005), 287 pp.
Turkish translation (by Alp Tümertekin), with an additional preface: Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları(Istanbul : YKY, 2001), 498 pp.
Swedish translation (by Margareta Eklöf): Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn (Stockholm: City University Press, 1999), 424pp.
German translation (by Ekkehard Schöller), with an additional preface: Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen (Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997), xviii + 462 pp.

Article: “Fundamentalisms and the Economy”

January 1, 19931990-1999, Chinese - 中文, Economics & religionTimur Kuran

“Fundamentalisms and the Economy,” in M. Marty and S. Appleby (eds.), Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993): 289-301.

Chinese translation: in press .

Article: “The Economic Impact of Islamic Fundamentalism”

January 1, 19931990-1999, Economics & religion, Islam & economic development, Islamic economics, Islamism, contemporary, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“The Economic Impact of Islamic Fundamentalism,” in M. Marty and S. Appleby (eds.), Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993): 302-341.

Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâmî Köktenciliğin Ekonomik Etkileri,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 13-71.

Article: “On the Notion of Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought”

May 1, 19891980-1989, Islamic economics, Islamism, contemporary, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

“On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 21 (May 1989): 171-191. Abstract

Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “Çağdaş İslâm Düşününde Ekonomik Adalet Kavramı Üzerine,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 181-210.
Slight revision: Islamic Economic Alternatives: Critical Perspectives and New Directions, ed. Jomo K. S. (ed.), (London: Macmillan Academic Press, 1992): 49-76.
Slight revision: The Economic Dimensions of Middle Eastern History, ed. H. Esfandiari and A. Udovitch (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1990): 93- 121.