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 … absence of Middle Eastern consuls -- Did Islam inhibit economic development? …

that often explicitly refer to Islam to justify some of their policies. In this paper, we analyse government reactions to … terrorist events in the states that are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. We find that the respective …