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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment - A Global and Historical Comparison (Hardcover)
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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment - A Global and Historical Comparison (Hardcover)
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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 the ninth and twelfth centuries. Nor
was Western colonialism the cause: Muslims had already suffered
political and socio-economic problems when colonization began. Kuru
argues that Muslims had influential thinkers and merchants in their
early history, when religious orthodoxy and military rule were
prevalent in Europe. However, in the eleventh century, an alliance
between orthodox Islamic scholars (the ulema) and military states
began to emerge. This alliance gradually hindered intellectual and
economic creativity by marginalizing intellectual and bourgeois
classes in the Muslim world. This important study links its
historical explanation to contemporary politics by showing that, to
this day, ulema-state alliance still prevents creativity and
competition in Muslim countries.
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