The puzzle of the Middle East's economic retardation -- Analyzing the economic role of Islam -- Commercial life under Islamic rule -- Stagnation of Islamic commercial organization -- Constraining features of the Islamic inheritance system -- The absence of the corporation in Islamic law -- Barriers to the emergence of a Middle Eastern business corporation -- Credit markets without banks -- The Islamization of non-Muslim economic life -- The ascent of the Middle East's religious minorities -- Origins and fiscal impact of the capitulations -- Foreign privileges as facilitators of impersonal exchange -- The absence of Middle Eastern consuls -- Did Islam inhibit economic development?
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Entry Element
Economic development
Entry Element
Islamic law
Entry Element
Islam
Topical Subdivision
Islam.
Topical Subdivision
Economic aspects.
Topical Subdivision
Economic aspects.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Entry Element
Middle East
Entry Element
Middle East
Topical Subdivision
Economic conditions.
Topical Subdivision
Economic policy.
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GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Code
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HC415
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15
Book number
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K87
2011
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Entry Element
Kuran
Part of Name Other than Entry Element
, Timur.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
Iran
Agency
University of Tehran. Central library and documentration center