Stanley Kurtz looks at how kinship strengthens cultural solidarity through in-marriage of cousins in Islamic societies. Keep in mind the tendency towards “honor killings” in Islamic societies while you’re reading it — also recall that Islam allows a man three wives.
Another reason that moving historically Islamic countries from Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Gap to his Core
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