Book: Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xviii+430 pp.
Category Archives: Islam & political development
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).
Podcast: “A Conspiracy of Silence,” Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedankar
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
Op-ed: “The Economic Costs of Erdoğan”
(with Dani Rodik) “The Economic Costs of Erdoğan” Project Syndicate, August 24, 2018
- Arabic translation: التكلفة الاقتصادية لأردوغان
- Chinese translation: 埃尔多安的经济代价
- French translation: “Les coûts économiques d’Erdoǧan”
- German translation: “Die wirtschaftlichen Kosten Erdoğans”
- Russian Translation: “Цена Эрдогана для экономики”
- Spanish translation: “Los costos económicos de Erdoğan”
- Turkish translation: “Erdoğan’ın Ekonomik Maliyeti
Op-ed: “Turkey’s Changing Freedom Deficit”
“Turkey’s Changing Freedom Deficit.” Project Syndicate, September 15, 2016.
- Arabic translation: تركيا وعجز الحرية
- Chinese translation: 土耳其不断变化的自由赤字
- French translation: Le déficit de la Turquie en matière de liberté
- German translation: “Die Einschränkung der Freiheit in der Türkei“.
- Russian translation: Турецкие перемены и дефицит свободы
- Spanish translation: Vaivenes de la falta de libertad en Turquía
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.
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
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.
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: “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 .
