central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating … Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively meaningful results: 1) longer Ramadan fasting has a negative effect on …

new puzzle: such an intellectual tradition did not exist in the Islamic world, even if the potential for abuse was … Islamic law (the Sharia) being far more encompassing than Western law, making it easier for citizens to identify abuses of … power and use collective action to discipline them. We study how the relative homogeneity and solidarity of Islamic society …

The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …

This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a … scheme unsustainable. Islam developed a set of dynamic redistributive rules that were self-enforcing, in regions where arid … the accumulation of wealth by the commercial elite, shaping the economic trajectory of Islamic lands in the pre …

We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic …

microfinance institution. We offer a commitment contract inspired by the rotating structure of a ROSCA. Additional treatments test …