Islamic Roots of Capitalism

This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today’s readers. New historical data on eigh­teenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than when<i> </i><i>Islamic Roots of Capitalism</i> first was published.

<b>Peter Gran</b>, professor of history at Temple University, is the author of <i>Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History, also published by Syracuse University Press. </i>