Book passageDocumented position

Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism

Timur Kuran

What this source says

A skeptical scholarly critique arguing that the modern doctrine of 'Islamic economics' is largely ideological and incoherent, and assessing the real-world performance of Islamic banking.

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Provenance

Source: Princeton University Press, 2004, ISBN 9780691115108
Edition: Princeton University Press, 2004
School / basis: Comparative
Original: https://sites.duke.edu/timurkuran/research/books/islam-and-mammon-the-economic-predicaments-of-islamism/
Added: 2026-06-03
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Topics

islamic-financeeconomicscritiqueislamic-economics

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