Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism
"[A] timely book, one that just about anyone aiming to do business in the Islamic world should read. . . . A good read."--Jay Palmer,Barron's"What is Islamic banking? What is Islamic economics? Islam and Mammon . . . sets out the genesis of these ideas and criticizes, severely but still sympathetically, both the performance and the underlying logic of this Islamic approach to economic activity."--L. Carl Brown,Foreign Affairs"[Kuran's] writing is lively, his arguments are cogent, and the scholarship is wide ranging. . . . [A] useful and understandable introduction to both the doctrines of Islamic economics and how they are related to economic behavior in predominantly Islamic nations."--Frederic L. Pryor,EH.NET"The clear theme unifying these essays is that Islamic economics as such is not a genuine answer to the world's economic problems, but an 'invented tradition' that serves as an adjunct to the broader, anti-Western, Islamist (or Islamic fundamentalist) political and religious movement. . . . Timur Kuran's book makes this case all too clearly and eloquently."--J. Barkley Rosser,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization