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The scale of entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern history : inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions
Kuran, Timur - 2008
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Between consumer demand and Islamic law : the evolution of Islamic credit cards in Turkey
Çokgezen, Murat; Kuran, Timur - 2015
The elimination of interest from financial transactions has been a salient goal of Islamization movements around the world. Its proponents have had to balance this objective, which they claim to draw from Islamic law (sharia), against consumer demand for convenient products. In general they have...
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Political consequence of the Middle East's Islamic economic legacy
Kuran, Timur - In: Institutions and comparative economic development, (pp. 99-115). 2012
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Institutional roots of authoritarian rule in the Middle East : civic legacies of the Islamic Waqf
Kuran, Timur - 2014
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The Islamic waqf : instrument of unequal security, worldly and otherworldly
Adıgüzel, Fatih Serkant; Kuran, Timur - 2021
, including women, were especially likely to prioritize wealth sheltering. Regular waqfs thus served to perpetuate prevailing …
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Zakat : Islam's missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation
Kuran, Timur - In: Public choice 182 (2020) 3/4, pp. 395-416
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Between consumer demand and Islamic law : the evolution of Islamic credit cards in Turkey
Çokgezen, Murat; Kuran, Timur - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 4, pp. 862-882
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Zakat : Islam's missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation
Kuran, Timur - 2019
One of Islam's five canonical pillars is a predictable, fixed, and mildly progressive tax system called zakat. It was … few decades after the rise of Islam, zakat opened the door to arbitrary political rule and material insecurity. A major …
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The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History : Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions
Kuran, Timur - 2009
The historical record belies the claim that Islam impeded entrepreneurship by inculcating conformism and fatalism …
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Islamic economics and the islamic subeconomy
Kuran, Timur - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 9 (1995) 4, pp. 155-173
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