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[POSTPONED] "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment" A Book Talk with Dr. Ahmet Kuru

Kuru
Thursday, April 02, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. Ahmet Kuru

This event has been postponed until Fall 2020.

Ahmet T. Kuru will talk about his new book Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Why do Muslim-majority countries have high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Kuru elaborates an argument about the ulema-state alliance as the cause of these problems in the Muslim world from the eleventh century to the present. Criticizing essentialist, post-colonialist, and new institutionalist alternative explanations, Kuru focuses on the relations between intellectual, economic, religious, and political classes in his own explanation. Kuru is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. For more information about his book, visit here: www.cambridge.org/Kuru

Free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served.