Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison / Ahmet T. Kuru.
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison / Ahmet T. Kuru.
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison / Ahmet T. Kuru.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/4372
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English
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xvii, 303 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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) --...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
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2019.
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"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 t...
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Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment : a global and historical comparison / Ahmet T. Kuru.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/4372
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74VKV5K8lyOg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5K8lyOg
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1108409474 paperback
9781108419093 hardcover
1108419097 hardcover
9781108409476 paperback
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909.09767
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991024267819702626
