(with Mustafa Batman): “The State Waqfs of Ottoman Istanbul, 1453–1923” (Social Science Research Network working paper, August 2026).
Category Archives: Islamic economics
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
Article: “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey”
(with Murat Çokgezen) “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43 (2015): 862-83.
Interview: “Islam and the Economy”
with Hiroyuki Kotaki, “Islam and the Economy,” Nikkei newspaper (Tokyo), December 13, 2014.
Interview: “Islamic Finance Sits Awkwardly in a Modern Business School”
with William Barnes: “Islamic Finance Sits Awkwardly in a Modern Business School.” Financial Times, July 21, 2013.
Encyclopedia article: “Riba”
“Riba,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004): 596-97.
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.
Article: “Islamic Redistribution Through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities”
“Islamic Redistribution Through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities,” in Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts, ed. Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, and Amy Singer (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), pp. 275-93.
Comment: Bill Maurer’s “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives”
Comment on Bill Maurer’s “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives,” Anthropology Today, 17:3 (June 2001): 28-29.
Article: “Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society”
“Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society,” in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and Public Policy [International Review of Comparative Public Policy, vol. 9] (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1997): 72-102. Abstract
- Italian translation (by Anna Caffarena): “La dottrina economica dell’Islam: Una visione alternativa,” Biblioteca della Libertà , 139 (March-April 1997): 35-67.
- Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâmcılık ve Ekonomi: Hür Bir Toplum İçin Politika Önerileri,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 101-146.
- Updated version: in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and the Everyday World:: Public Policy Dilemmas (New York: Routledge, 2008): 38-65.
Review: Mohamed Aslam Haneef, Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought
Mohamed Aslam Haneef, Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought: A Selected Comparative Analysis (Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Ikraq, 1995), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 30 (December 1996): 182-83.
Reply: Umar Chapra’s Comment on “Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy”
Reply to Umer Chapra’s comment on my article “Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (Summer 1996): 195-196.
Article: “The Discontents of Islamic Economic Morality”
“The discontents of Islamic economic morality,” American Economic Review, 86 (May 1996): 438-442.
