Book: Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xviii+430 pp.
Category Archives: Economic history
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: “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly”
(with Serkant Adıgüzel) “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly” (29 December 2020).
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.
Book: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
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- Turkish edition: Yollar Ayrılırken: Ortadoğu’nun Geri Kalma Sürecinde İslam Hukukunun Rolü (Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2012). See table of contents + introduction + chapter 1. See the book’s page at YKY.
- Spanish edition: La Larga Divergencia: La Influencia de la ley Islamica en el Atraso de Oriento Medio (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2017). See book’s page at EUG and summary.
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- Persian edition: شکاف عمیق در خاورمیانه (by Seyedmehdi Mirhoseini): (London: Mehri Publishers, 2019)
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Lecture transcript: “Orta Doğu’da Ekonomik Azgelişmişliğin Kurumsal Kökenleri”
“Orta Doğu’da Ekonomik Azgelişmişliğin Kurumsal Kökenleri” (Kayseri Ticaret Odası Dergisi (Ekim 2010): 50-58). (Yollar Ayrılırken (The Long Divergence) kitabındaki ana temaları kapsayan bir konuşmanın metni)
Edited book set: Mahkeme Kayıtları Işığında 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul’unda Sosyo-Ekonomik Yaşam / Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records
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Review: Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails
Review of Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Journal of Economic History, 69 (December 2009): 1182-84.
Article: “The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence”
“The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence.” American Journal of Comparative Law, 53 (July 2005): 785-834.
Encyclopedia article: “Levant: Islamic Rule”
“Levant: Islamic Rule,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 309-14.
