“Economic Theory,” Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012): 142-44.
Category Archives: Islam & Economic Development
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.
Policy brief: “Building Arab Civil Society to Promote Economic Growth”
“Building Arab Civil Society to Promote Economic Growth.” Addressing the 100 Million Youth Challenge: Perspectives on Youth Unemployment in the Arab World 2012, World Economic Forum, 4-6 June 2012, 15-17.
Interview: “How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East”
Radio interview with David Inge, WILL am 580, Illinois Public Media, on “How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East,” April 9, 2012.
Article: “Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life”
(with Scott Lustig) “Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life.” Journal of Law and Economics, 55 (2012): 631-66.
Interview: “Why Can’t the Middle East Catch Up to the World’s Leading Economies”
Radio interview with Jerry Bowyer, The American Entrepreneur, November 10, 2011: “Why Can’t the Middle East Catch Up to the World’s Leading Economies.”
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity”
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity,” pp. 10-11 in World Economic Forum, 21 October 2011, The Compendium on Economic Governance in the Arab World 2011.
Roundtable paper: “Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences”
“Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44 (2012): 542-45.
Book excerpt: “Long Divergence”
Excerpt of Long Divergence: Milken Institute Review, 13 (2011): 59-76.
Popular essay: “Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East”
“Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East,” European Financial Review (February-March 2011): 10-11 (essay summarizing the Long Divergence).
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.
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)
Article: “The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective”
“The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective,” in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law, ed. James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 71-89.
Podcast: “Why the Middle East Fell Behind Europe”
Podcast of interview with Anthony Gill of University of Washington, on why the Middle East fell behind Western Europe during the millennium preceding the Industrial revolution. Research on Religion Podcast: August 23, 2010.
Podcast: “Orta Doğu’nun Ekonomik Azgelişmişliği”
with Ali Bilge on Açık Radyo (94.9 FM Istanbul) regarding the causes of economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, in Turkish. (Ali Bilge ile Açık Radyo’da “Orta Doğu’nun ekonomik azgelişmişliği” konulu söyleşi (2 bölüm: 29-30 Haziran 2010).)