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Timur Kuran

Timur Kuran

Gorter Family Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies
Economics
t.kuran@duke.edu
Box 90097, Department of Economics, Durham, NC 27708
Department of Economics, Box 90097, 213 Chapel Drive, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Institutional Causes of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: a Historical Perspective

Conference INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR · January 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Islamic redistribution through zakat historical record and modern realities

Conference · December 1, 2003 The year 1995 saw the publication of the proceedings of an international conference on zakat (alms) held five years earlier in Kuala Lumpur.1 The weighty volume's main theme is that today's zakat systems have a negligible impact on poverty alleviation-the ... Cite