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Islamic Governance and Justice

Comparative indices measuring governance and corruption consistently place many Muslim-majority states below non-Muslim-majority comparators, a pattern that has produced a genuine, unsettled academic debate over how much of the gap reflects religion specifically versus poverty, colonial history, oil-rentierism, and Arab-specific political economy.

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
A historical-critical essay testing whether practices commonly defended as Islamic -- from denying women their Qur'anic inheritance shares to state corruption and the political shaping of orthodoxy -- rest on the Qur'an itself, or on later interpretation, historical tradition, absorbed local custom, and political authority defended in revelation's name.

Islamic Governance and Justice

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice