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by Jared Rubin


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  Index

  AALIMS. See Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies

  Abbasid Caliphate, 33, 108Europe and, 71, 233n49

  legitimacy and, 59–60

  safatij and, 94, 232n44, 233n49

  size of, 4, 6, 7, 49, 50t; See also specific persons, topics

  Abramitzky, Ran, xix–xx

  Acemoglu, Daron, 18

  Africa, 2, 8, 21, 65, 201, 213, 221n1

  agriculture, 50, 63, 64, 159, 182f, 183, 243n25

  al-Bukhari, Muhammad, 52

  Alexander III (Pope), 84

  Alexander the Great, 32, 49

  Alfonso IX, 138

  al-Jamali, Ali, 48

  Allen, Robert, 211, 222n11, 236n4

  al-Muntasir, 33

  al-Qaeda, xiii

  Anderson, Robert, 174

  Aquinas, Thomas, 69

  Arab Spring, 30, 216, 217

  Arabic script, 105, 106, 109, 113, 142, 144, 198, 236n46

  ASREC. See Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture

  Assad, Bashar al, 216

  Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), xviii

  Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC), xviii

  authoritarian rule, xiii, 216, 217, 218, 220. See also specific rulers, topics

  Baghdad, 4, 7, 94, 108

  Balla, Eliana, 39, 191

  banking, 5, 81bills of exchange, 2, 92–97, 204, 231n38, 234n58

  Europe and, 92, 96, 179, 204 (see also specific states, topics)

  interest and, 75–132 (see also interest)

  Middle East and, 13, 75, 76, 81–82, 92–97, 230n10, 230n14, 234n58 (see also specific states, topics)

  modern, 75, 81, 97

  money and, 75–132 (see also money)

  origins of, 5, 92, 204

  safatij and, 94, 96–97, 234n58

  Bayezid II, 82, 105, 192

  Becker, Sascha, 120

  Becket, Thomas á, 68

  Belgium, 152, 159–160, 162, 165, 166–167, 170

  Berman, Harold J., 69

  bills of exchange, 92–97, 204, 234n58

  Black Death, 149, 151, 181

  Blaydes, L., 223n18

  Boniface VIII, 70

  Bosker, Maarten, 137

  Bouazizi, Mohamed, 217

  Bourgeois Dignity (McCloskey), 20

  Buringh, Eltjo, 100, 115, 137

  Calvinism, 15, 159

  capitalism, 16, 21, 119, 120

  Carolingian Empire, 64, 83

  Catholicism: anti-usury and, 91canon law, 68–70

  commerce and, 91, 189, 205

  deposition, 69, 70

  Dictatus Papae, 69

  economic elites and, 189

  economics and, 205

  England and, 155

  fragmentation and, 116

  Holy Roman Empire (see Holy Roman Empire)

  Inquisition, 173

  interest and, 84–85, 90–91 (see also interest)

  Islam and, 121, 206

  Lateran Councils, 84, 87;

  legitimacy and, xv, 23, 52, 54, 62–72, 141, 153, 202, 204, 207 (see also legitimation)

  medieval period, 54, 63, 64

  monasteries, 115

  Netherlands and, 162

  Ottomans and, 114, 115

  papal coronation, 64

  parliaments and, 139

  political elites and, 67

  printing and, 104, 114, 115, 124, 135, 218 (see also printing)

  property and, 154

  Protestants and, 47, 119, 120, 121, 205 (see Protestants)

  secular rulers, 91, 114

  Spain and, 15, 169–200, 214 (see also Spain)

  universities and, 114; See also Christianity; specific persons, topics

  causal connection, 10, 16, 20–22, 120, 123, 131–133, 236n1, 236n2, 244n21

  censorship, 104, 217

  Chaney, Eric, 34, 223n18

  charismatic rulers, 31, 56

  Charlemagne, 64, 83

  Charles I (of England), 29, 157

  Charles V (of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire), 128, 161, 174, 175, 176, 183

  Chaudhary, Latika, xvii

  China, 215, 221n7, 224n26

  Christianity, 4, 42, 46banking and, 93–97, 204, 234n58 (see also banking)

  capitalism and, 16, 119, 120 (see also capitalism)

  Catholicism (see Catholicism)

  census and, 85, 87

  Christian rulers, 91 (see also specific rulers, topics)

  church/state, 22, 54, 67, 68

  conservatism and, 203 (see also conservatism)

  Constantine and, 53, 62, 227n12, 231n23

  divergence and, 24 (see also divergence)

  early history, 52–54, 63

  economics and, 13, 205 (see also economics)

  formation of, 202

  history, 53

  Ho
ly Roman Empire (see Holy Roman Empire)

  institutions in, 12, 238n28 (see also institutions)

  interest and, 83–92, 97, 231n23

  Islam and, 5, 12, 13, 54, 238n28

  legitimation and, xv, 23, 52, 54, 62–71, 141, 202, 204 (see also legitimation)

  medieval period, 54, 63, 64

  montes and, 88

  Nicaean Council, 83

  origins of, 52

  papal coronation, 64

  poverty and, 227n9

  printing and, 218, 219

  Protestants (see Protestants)

  rebellion and, 54

  religious elites, 48, 49, 52, 89 (see also religious elites)

  Roman Empire and, 52, 53, 62–71

  societas and, 85, 87

  trade and, 50

  usury and, 230n21; See also specific groups, persons, topics

  cities. See urbanization

  citizenry, 28citizenship, 162

  freedom and, 214

  ideology and, 39

  institutions and (see institutions)

  legitimation and, 30

  media and, 218

  military, 33

  propagation and, 38, 41

  property and, 199

  reform and, 40–41

  religious authority and, 42, 43, 55, 56f, 59, 89

  taxes, 186, 189

  City of God, The (Augustine), 53

  Clark, Gregory, 21

  Clement III, 68

  Clovis, 63

  coercive agents, 11, 31, 33, 34f, 69, 223n17

  Cognac, League of, 47

  colonialism, xiii, 6, 19, 21, 22, 159, 169, 179, 219

  Commercial Revolution, 65, 71, 90, 212

  conservatism, 11Christianity and, 203

  divergence and, 10, 11 (see also divergence)

  economics and, 11

  fundamentalism, xv

  history and, 10

  incentives and, 12, 21

  Islam and, 61, 203

  law and, 61

  mysticism and, 10

  religious elite and, 61

  stagnation and, 11

  Constantine, 53, 62, 227n12, 231n23

  Cosgel, Metin, xviii, 105, 109, 142, 244n64

  currency. See money

  David, Paul, 226n22

  de Vries, Jan, 163

  democracy, 215, 216. See also parliaments

 

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