Timur Kuran

Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His publications include Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) and The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2011), each widely translated.

Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His publications include Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) and The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2011), each widely translated. See less