Charitable giving is one of the major obligations Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but …

is more pronounced in countries where Islam is the source of legislation. Constitutions changed in only four Muslim …

Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …

determinants of identity in the Arab region, Islam and cultural tradition. Employing two waves of the World Values Survey, we find … participation ; Arab region ; Islam ; Identity ; Religion …

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … (i) determined the economic aspects of the religious doctrine upon which Islam was formed, and (ii) shaped its subsequent … had to remain within limits for Islam to persist. This was instituted via restrictions on physical capital accumulation …