The doctrine of "Islamic economics" entered debates over the social role of Islam in the mid-twentieth century. Since …

The puzzle of the Middle East's economic retardation -- Analyzing the economic role of Islam -- Commercial life under … absence of Middle Eastern consuls -- Did Islam inhibit economic development? …

past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study, Hanusch indicates that he … conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch moreover uses data that do … Islam. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …

Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism … attitudes or some incompatibility between Islam and capitalism. Rather, starting around the tenth century, Islamic legal … institutions, which had benefitted the Middle Eastern economy in the early centuries of Islam, began to act as a drag on …