Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison /
Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity, because Muslims were philosophically and socio-economicall...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Violence and peace
- Authoritarianism and democracy
- Socioeconomic underdevelopment and development
- Progress: scholars and merchants (seventh to eleventh centuries)
- Crisis: the invaders (twelfth to fourteenth centuries)
- Power: three Muslim empires (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries)
- Collapse: Western colonialism and Muslim reformists (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries).