“Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation.” Public Choice, 182, (2020): 395-416.
Category Archives: Islam & economic development
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, August 9, 2019).
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
Article: “The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates Under Partial Rule of Law”
(with Jared Rubin), “The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates Under Partial Rule of Law.” Economic Journal, 128 (March 2018): 758-96. Technical appendices. Data set. Typescript at SSRN.
Article: “Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf”
“Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf.” American Journal of Comparative Law, 64 (Summer 2016): 419-54.
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.
Encyclopedia article: “Banks and Banking”
“Banks and Banking,” Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), print and online.
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.
Interview: “Islam and the Economy”
with Hiroyuki Kotaki, “Islam and the Economy,” Nikkei newspaper (Tokyo), December 13, 2014.
Op-ed: “Economic and Political Effects of European Restrictions on Muslim Religious Freedom”
“Economic and Political Effects of European Restrictions on Muslim Religious Freedom.” Cornerstone, December 2014 .
Interview: “Study Explores Ottoman Empire’s Upside Down Lending System”
With Steven Richmond and Jared Rubin on financial markets in Ottoman Istanbul: “Study Explores Ottoman Empire’s Upside Down Lending System.” BadCredit.org, November 6, 2014.
Article: “Bénéfice Inattendu des Capitulations: Facilitation de L’Échange Impersonnel”
“Bénéfice Inattendu des Capitulations: Facilitation de L’Échange Impersonnel,” translated by Michel Bruneau. Anatoli (Dossier Thématique: Configurations Économiques dans L’Espace Post-Ottoman), 5 (2014): 53-80. Drawn from Long Divergence, chaps. 11-12.
Article: “The Political Consequences of Islam’s Economic Legacy”
“The Political Consequences of Islam’s Economic Legacy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, 39 (2013): 345-405.
Video: “Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring, with Hernando de Soto”
“Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring, with Hernando de Soto” (educational video of Free to Choose Network for PBS; includes segments from a Duke interview), 2013.
Article: “Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences”
(with Anantdeep Singh) “Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences”. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61 (2013): 503-38.