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  • The discontents of Islamic economic morality
    Kuran, Timur (American Economic Review, 1996)
    The main purpose of Islamic economics is not to improve economic performance. Notwithstanding the claim that Islamic economics provides a superior alternative to the secular economic doctrines of the time, its real purpose ...
  • The economic system in contemporary Islamic thought: Interpretation and assessment
    Kuran, Timur (International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1986-05)
    Since the late 1940s, and especially since the mid-1960s, a wealth of pamphlets, articles, and books have appeared that constitute the corpus of what is now known as "Islamic economics." This literature, whose exponents ...
  • On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought
    Kuran, Timur (Journal of Middle East Studies, 1989-05)
    In the massive contemporary literature that has come to be known as "Islamic economics,"' the claim is repeatedly made that an Islamic economic system would achieve a greater degree of economic justice than existing ...