Islamic economics : a short history / by Ahmed A.F. El-Ashker and Rodney Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Ashker, Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, 1943-

Contributor:

Wilson, Rodney.

Series:

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 3.

Themes in Islamic studies, 1389-823X ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Religious aspects--Islam.

Economics.

Islam--Economic aspects.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive survey of Islamic economic thought covers the development of ideas from the early Muslim jurists to the period of the Umayyads and Abbasids. The economic concerns of the Ottomans, Safawids and Moghuls are examined, as is the profusion of more recent writing.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENT""; ""TRANSLITERATION OF ARABIC LETTERS""; ""CHAPTER ONE PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA POETRY, TRIBAL RIVALRY AND HEROISM (800 B.C.-610 A.C.)""; ""Introduction""; ""Biblical Connections""; ""The Land and the People""; ""Social Organization and Settlement Patterns""; ""Arabian Civilizations""; ""Trade and Finance in Makkah""; ""The Bedouin in Islam""; ""CHAPTER TWO THE BIRTH OF THE ISLAMIC STATE ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN THE QUR'N AND SUNNAH (610 A.C.-632 A.C.)""; ""Introduction""; ""Sources of the Islamic Economic Thought""

""Economic Thought in the Qur'n and the Sunnah Basic Philosophy""""Basic Philosophy""; ""Application of Basic Philosophy""; ""Islamic Economics in the Qur"n and Sunnah and the Present Time""; ""CHAPTER THREE ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF THE RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS (632 A.C.-661 A.C.)""; ""Introduction""; ""The Caliphate""; ""The First Caliph Ab-Bakr (632-634)""; ""The Second Caliph Umar (634-644)""; ""The Third Caliph Uthm'n (644-656)""; ""The Fourth Caliph Ali (656-661)""; ""CHAPTER FOUR THE DYNASTIC CALIPHATES THE UMAYYADS AND THE REFORMS (661 A.C.-750 A.C.)""; ""Introduction""

""The Caliphate and the Dynasty""""Islamic Expansion and the Need for Administrative Reform""; ""Administrative and Economic Reforms""; ""Monetary Reform""; ""Islamic Urbanization""; ""Agriculture""; ""Trade and Commerce""; ""Legal Forms of Business""; ""State Finance""; ""CHAPTER FIVE THE ABBAS'S GOLDEN AGE THE FLORESCENCE OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS (750 A.C.-1000 A.C.)""; ""Introduction""; ""Leading Specialized Work on Islamic Economics""; ""Main Changes in the Economic Features""; ""Intellectual Development""; ""Jurisprudence Schools of Thought""

""The First Specialized Books on Islamic Economics""""Abù-Yùsuf (113-182 A.H., 731-798 A.C.) Kit'b al-Khar'j, Treatise in al-Khar'j""; ""Al-Shaib'n (132-189 A.H., 750-804 A.C.): From Macro-Economics to Micro-Economics Kit'b al-Iktis'b, Book of Earnings""; ""Ab-Ubaid (d. 224 H., 838 A.C.) Kit'b al-Amw'l, Book of Wealth""; ""The Contribution of S'sm to Islamic Economic Thought""; ""Abdullah al-OEarith bin Asad al-Muoeasib, (d. 243 A.H., 857 A.C.) Kit Risalat al-Iktisb wa al Wara', Treatise on Earning and Asceticism""

""CHAPTER SIX POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY (1000 A.C.-1400 A.C.)""""Introduction""; ""Political Fragmentation""; ""The Collapse and Restoration of the Caliphate""; ""Intellectual Diversity""; ""Ab al-Hasan al-M ward-450 A.H., 972-1058 A.C.) al-Aoek'm al-S'lt' niyyah, Book of State Ordinance""; ""Al-R'ghib al-A'fahà nì (d. 502 A.H./1108 A.C.) al-Zar'ah fi Mak'rim al-Shar'ah, Means of Glorious Shar""ah""; ""Ab¹-Hamid al-Ghaz l (450-505 A.H./1058-1111 A.C.) Ioeya' Ul¹m al-Dn, The Revival of the Science of Religion""

""Ja""afer al-D'mashq (late 12th century) al-Isharah fi Maoe' sin al-Tijarah, Book of Good Trading""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-429) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39924-8

9786611399245

90-474-0962-0

OCLC:

923613032