Interview: “Declining Islam in the Middle East?” Atlas Society, with Jennifer Grossman, 22 January 2025.
Category Archives: Economics & religion
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.
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.
Article: “Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links”
Article in English: “Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links.” Journal of Economic Literature, 56 (December 2018): 1292-1359.
Turkish translation (by Cemal Balcı): İslam ve Ekonomik Azgelişmişlik: Tarihsel ve Çağdaş Bağlantılar (Istanbul: Efil Yayınevi, 2019), 111 pp. Arka kapak İçindekiler
Discussion: “The Economic and Political Effects of Restrictions on Religion”
Religious Freedom Project discussion on “The Economic and Political Effects of Restrictions on Religion” moderated by Daniel Philpott. Participants: Timur Kuran and Abdullah Saeed, December 15, 2014.
Op-ed: “Religious Freedom Promotes Economic Development”
“Religious Freedom Promotes Economic Development.” Cornerstone, April 28, 2014 .
Interview: “A Challenging Exploration of Islam and Economics”
with Jerry Oster: “A Challenging Exploration of Islam and Economics“.
Book excerpt: “Islam and Mammon”
Excerpt from Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review, 6:3 (2004): 61-81.
Book: Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism
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.
