Freedoms delayed : political legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East / Timur Kuran, Duke University.
2023
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Freedoms delayed : political legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East / Timur Kuran, Duke University.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Islam and political development
Explaining civic passivity, illiberalism, and lawlessness
Non-governmental organizations under Islamic Law
The political impotence of Islamic Waqfs
Waqf corruption and its degradation of civic life
The Islamic Waqf's long civic shadows
Religious freedoms in Islamic history
Marginalization of Islam
Resurgence of assertive Islamism
Religious diversification, in fact and in law
The absence of liberal schisms
Unshackled states, shallow economic governance
Politically powerless entrepreneurs and enterprises
Islamism's missed opportunities to promote liberalisms
Islamic institutions and Muslim freedom.
Explaining civic passivity, illiberalism, and lawlessness
Non-governmental organizations under Islamic Law
The political impotence of Islamic Waqfs
Waqf corruption and its degradation of civic life
The Islamic Waqf's long civic shadows
Religious freedoms in Islamic history
Marginalization of Islam
Resurgence of assertive Islamism
Religious diversification, in fact and in law
The absence of liberal schisms
Unshackled states, shallow economic governance
Politically powerless entrepreneurs and enterprises
Islamism's missed opportunities to promote liberalisms
Islamic institutions and Muslim freedom.
Summary
According to diverse indices of political performance, the Middle East is the world's least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran, author of the influential Long Divergence, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East's lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions, both defunct and still active, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships, electoral democracies, monarchies legitimated through Islam, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam's rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts; and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region's prevailing record of human freedoms.
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English
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9781009320009 (ebook)
9781009320016 (hardback)
9781009320023 (paperback)
9781009320016 (hardback)
9781009320023 (paperback)
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