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Teachings on usury in Judaism, Christianity and Islam / Susan L. Buckley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Susan L. (Susan Louise)
- Series:
- Texts and studies in religion ; v. 85.
- Texts and studies in religion ; v. 85
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Usury.
- Usury--Biblical teaching.
- Usury--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Usury--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Usury--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Toward a Judaic Understanding of Usury 1
- The Torah: Pentateuchal Exegesis 1
- Usury: Definition and Interpretation
- Neshekh; Marbit; and Tarbit 19
- The Talmud: Usury
- Rabbinical Interpretation 34
- Debt and the Law of Jubilee 43
- The Temple 56
- The Development of 'Jewish Economic Life' in both the Christian and the Islamic World from Medieval to Modern Times 64
- Chapter 2 Toward a Christian Understanding of Usury 85
- The Christian Attitude to Old Testament Law 85
- New Testament Sources 88
- The Patristic Position and the Early Church Councils 95
- Introduction to the Medieval Period 101
- The Scholastic Interpretation 108
- St. Thomas Aquinas and the Aristotalean Theory 114
- Usury Prohibition: But is There a Right to Interest? 120
- Contracts: The Societas, Foenas Nauticum, and Census 126
- Montes Pietatis 132
- Contractus Trinus 136
- The Casuistry of John Major 142
- The 'Five Per Cent' Contract and the Jesuits 147
- The Non-Scholastics: Calvin
- a Countertheory? 152
- The Usury Position 1700-1850 161
- Christian Socialism: 'Unsocial Christians and Unchristian Socialists'
- Experiments in 'Associationism' and Cooperatve Banking 173
- Chapter 3 Toward an Islamic Understanding of Usury 187
- 'Riba': Qur'anic Sources and Definitions 187
- 'Zakat'
- one of the 'Five Pillars of Islam' 202
- 'Tawhid' and 'Ummah' 208
- The 'Shari'ah' 219
- The Historical Development of the Islamic Teaching on 'Riba' 229
- Hadith Interpretation 230
- The 'Schools of Law' with regard to 'Riba' 235
- The Development of 'Islamic Economics' 245
- 'Islamic Banking' and 'Riba' 263
- Islamic Banking: a Model 268
- Islamic Banking: Micro-Enterprise 271
- Islamic Banking: Macro-Enterprise 277
- Islamic Banking: Non-Islamic Environments 291
- Islamic Banking: A Paradigm for the Future? 298
- Appendix 1 Secularization vs. Secularism 361.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0773476563
- OCLC:
- 44391766
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