Islamic Economics
Subtitle: A Short History (Themes in Islamic Studies)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789004151345
Subjects: Economic systems; Islamic Studies; Middle East - General; Economics - General; Social Science; Sociology; Middle East; Religious aspects; Economics; Economic aspects; Islam
Description: "The study covers Muslim economic thought from the emergence of Islam, long before economics became a separate discipline with distinctive analytical tools. The economic environment in ancient Arabia from which Islam emerged is examined, and the economic concepts in the Qur'an and Sunnah are discussed, as well as the thinking of early Muslim Caliphs and jurists. Detailed consideration is given to Islamic economic thought during the dynasties of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, periods of administrative and economic reform, as well as of much latter developments under the Ottomans, Safawids and Moghuls. Islamic revivalist reform movements are appraised, as these predated the reawakening of interest in Islamic economics in the last century, and the subsequent profusion of writing, with the works of the leading contributors reviewed in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.