Interview: “Declining Islam in the Middle East?” Atlas Society, with Jennifer Grossman, 22 January 2025.
Category Archives: Economic history
Interview: “Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East,” Cato Institute, with Mustafa Akyol and John Voll, 12 March 2024.
Interview: “Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East,” Cato Institute, with Mustafa Akyol and John Voll, 12 March 2024.
Podcast: “The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran,” The Seen and the Unseen, with Amit Varma, 2 October 2023.
Podcast: “The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran,” The Seen and the Unseen, with Amit Varma, 2 October 2023.
Podcast: “Political History of the Middle East,” Economic and Political History Podcast, with Javier Mejia, 9 September 2023.
Podcast: “Political History of the Middle East,” Economic and Political History Podcast, with Javier Mejia, 9 September 2023.
Podcast: “A Chat with Timur Kuran on Freedoms Delayed and Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecci and Sascha O. Becker, 6 August 2023.
Podcast: “A Chat with Timur Kuran on Freedoms Delayed and Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecci and Sascha O. Becker, 6 August 2023.
Podcast: “Timur Kuran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio,” Trend Following Radio, with Michael Covel, 27 February 2023.
Podcast: “Timur Kuran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio,” Trend Following Radio, with Michael Covel, 27 February 2023.
Book: Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xviii+430 pp.
Book: Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xviii+430 pp.
Podcast: “The Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecchi and Sascha Becker, 15 December 2021.
Podcast: “The Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecchi and Sascha Becker, 15 December 2021.
Working Paper: “Keeping while Giving: The Perpetuation of Inequalities through Private Islamic Waqfs”
(with Serkant Adıgüzel) “Keeping while Giving: The Perpetuation of Inequalities through Private Islamic Waqfs” (20 August 2024).
Working Paper: “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839”
(with Aslı Cansunar) “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839” (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke Working Paper, SSRN, December 22, 2020).
Article: “Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation”
“Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation.” Public Choice, 182, (2020): 395-416.
Op-ed: “The Roots of Middle East Mistrust”
“The Roots of Middle East Mistrust.” Project Syndicate, July 8, 2016.
- Arabic translation: جذور انعدام الثقة في الشرق الأوسط
- Chinese translation: 中东缺乏信任的根源
- Czech translation: Kořeny blízkovýchodní nedůvěry
- Dutch translation: De wortels van het wantrouwen in het Midden-Oosten
- French translation: Les racines du manque de confiance au Moyen-Orient
- German translation: Die Wurzeln des Misstrauens im Mittleren Osten
- Indonesian translation: Asal Mula Ketidakpercayaan di Timur Tengah
- Italian translation: Dove affondano le radici della diffidenza del Medio Oriente
- Russian translation: Корни недоверия Ближнего Востока
- Spanish translation: Las raíces de la desconfianza en Oriente Medio
Comment: “Yaycıoğlu’s Review of Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul”
“A Comment on Ali Yaycıoğlu’s Review of Timur Kuran (ed.), Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records, vols. 1-10 (IJMES 47 (2015):625-27)”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (2016): 429-32.
Interview: “Crescent Moon Capitalism”
with Noah Blazer, “Crescent Moon Capitalism: Timur Kuran Weighs the Legacy of Islam’s Divergence from the West,” Today’s Zaman, June 28, 2012.
Review essay: “West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”
“West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”. Foreign Affairs, 90 (January-February 2011): 159-63. Printer friendly version.
