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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108409476ISBN-10:1108409474UPC:9781108409476Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:WorldSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCXJP8ZFQM
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
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-economically more developed than Western Europeans between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Nor was Western...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108409476ISBN-10:1108409474UPC:9781108409476Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:WorldSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCXJP8ZFQM
Kuru, Ahmet T.: - Ahmet T. Kuru is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at San Diego State University. He is the author of the award-winning Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge, 2009) and co-editor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (2012). His works have...
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