Timur Kuran on Islamic Law and Economic Development
At the start of the second millenium, Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East were at comparable levels of economic development. However, over the course of the next several centuries, Europe...
View ArticleJared Rubin on Christian and Islamic Economic History
One of the great puzzles of economic history is why a disorganized and war-torn medieval Europe economically surged ahead of the more culturally advanced Islamic world beginning roughly in the 11th...
View ArticleTimur Kuran on Islamic Law & Economic Development
While the staff at Research on Religion takes a short respite, we provide you a previously released, yet timeless, interview from 2010. We will return next week with a new episode for your educational...
View ArticleLawrence Rubin on Islam and Ideational Balancing
Can the ideas proposed by one nation-state threaten another nation-state? If so, how do the threatened nations respond? We probe these questions with respect to Islam and the two Islamic political...
View ArticleRichard Nielsen on Deadly Clerics
Political rebellion and violence in the Middle East has recently been associated with religious belief and rhetoric, often spurred on by the writings and recordings of Muslim clerics. What motivates...
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