The Sources of Islamic Civilization

Grunebaum, G. E. von

doi:10.1515/islm.1970.46.1.1

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“…Greif based his claim on the interpretation of a single Arabic term, umma, attributed to Cahen, who did not use it. Instead umma appears in Von Grunebaum's entry in the Cambridge History of Islam , “The sources of Islamic civilization,” without being associated with a ‘collective’ mentality (Greif, ; Von Grunebaum, ). On the other hand, there is evidence from the Middle East of society and the state rewarding individual achievements and of social and state's recognition of innovation (Al‐Hasan & Hill, ; Brentjes & Morrison, ; Gutas, ).…”

Section: Cultural Factors: Institutions Islamic Law and Men Of Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part one)

Shatzmiller

2018

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Economic historians have returned in recent years to blaming the prolonged economic decline of the Middle East on cultural factors. At the root of the problem, as they see it, were economic institutions rendered inefficient by the religion of Islam and Islamic law, and they have used evidence from the Islamic medieval Middle East as support. This paper reviews the various strands of the argument and critically assesses its use of historical evidence. It concludes that the evidence does not support the postulate that cultural factors generated a dysfunctional Middle Eastern economic system and offers an alternative analysis. It shows that empirical evidence ignored by the cultural factors argument points to growth promoting structural change and corresponds to what we would expect based on economic theory.

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Section: Cultural Factors: Institutions Islamic Law and Men Of Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part one)

Shatzmiller

2018

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“…The search for pattern and rules for its formation in communities was pursued by ecologists, with increasingly involved sampling and analytic technique, and was perpetuated in the work of John Curtis and Robert Whittaker (Barbour 1996). Michael Austin (1985Austin ( , 1989 (von Grunebaum 1970). Because Arabic and Persian cultures did not emphasize science, and because Byzantine science barely rose above the mediocre level of Roman science, one might guess that Arabic language science would be no better than Byzantine science.…”

Section: Historians' Gleasonmentioning

confidence: 99%