Was the Middle East's Economic Descent a Legal or Politcal Failure?
Channel: gdnetcairo
Date: 31/10/2013

In this video, Adeel Malik (Oxford University) tells us about his paper "Was the Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? Debating the Islamic law matters Thesis"discusses a historical question with great contemporary relevance; which is why did the Middle East fail to develop in relation to Western Europe back in 1500s given the divergence in development outcomes between Europe and the Middle East. According to Adeel, a very important explanation of this relates to the primacy of Islamic law. 

Read the paper http://www.erf.org.eg/CMS/uploads/pdf/Malik.pdf
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