This essay critically evaluates the analytic literature concerned with causal connections
between Islam and economic performance. It focuses on works since 1997, when this …

This study examines the transplantation and evolution of business law in the late Ottoman
Empire and the early Turkish republic, drawing broader implications for the economic and …

Although radical institutional reforms that redistribute wealth usually involve violence,
peaceful transformations are not unknown. This paper explores the conditions under which …

While Turkey's formal economic institutions and policies underwent a great deal of change
during the last century, the late Ottoman era had a long-lasting impact on the latter period …

This chapter offers a state-of-the-art overview of historical research on women's roles as
business actors in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Muslim women in the late …

This article offers new evidence on commercial financing in the early modern Ottoman
Empire. It examines the little-known role of cash waqfs (nukud-ı mevkufe), Islamic trusts, in …

Nearly a century after Bernard Lewis' seminal article, much about craft guilds in Islamic
societies remains unknown. Even less is known about journeymen, a stratum of hired …

The Ottoman-Turkish historiography has been largely concerned with the economic
nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which consisted of four …

抄録 Man/animal power played a large role in pre-modern transportation. Istanbul was no
exception, and its gigantic economy always required a workforce of hammals, that is …

This chapter examines the key historical factors sha** the adoption and spread of
business organizational forms in Turkey and their implications for economic development …