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Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. xvi + 402 pages. USD 29.95 (cloth)

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  1. For recent research on this topic see in particular Chaney and Blaydes (2011); Rubin (2011).

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Koyama, M. Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East. Public Choice 154, 341–343 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-9940-1

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