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Podcast: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Episode: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment A Global and Historical Comparison
Description: AHMET T. KURU
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
A Global and Historical Comparison
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019
March 25, 2020 James M. Dorsey
Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries. Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, Kuru’s work traces the template of the modern-day state in many Muslim-majority countries to fundamental political, social and economic changes in the 11th century. That was when Islamic scholars who until then had by and large refused to surrender their independence to the...