Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East - Couverture rigide

Kuran, Timur

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009320017 ISBN 13 : 9781009320016

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His publications include Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) and The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2011), each widely translated.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009320017
• ISBN 13: 9781009320016
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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