Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment Lawrence W. Bradley ISBN13: 9781558858404

ISBN13: 9781558858404

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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment Lawrence W. Bradley ISBN13: 9781558858404Why do Muslim majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes explanations which point to Islam as the cause of this disparity, because Muslims were philosophically and socio economically more developed than Western Europeans between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Nor was Western colonialism the cause: Muslims had already suffered