Partnership and profit in medieval Islam / Abraham L. Udovitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Udovitch, Abraham L.

Series:

Princeton studies on the Near East.

Princeton studies on the Near East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Partnership (Islamic law).

Law, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1970.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories. In the case of the early centuries of the Islamic period, available sources unfortunately preclude such a procedure. Theoretical legal texts exist in abundance, but any corresponding documentary material is for all practical purposes non-extant. In order to determine if the framework in which the trade and commerce of the early Islamic period was carried on--a trade known to have been active and important--we must of necessity rely on legal treatises for most of our information, which trying wherever possible to call upon whatever meager help other literary sources may provide. In the absence of documentary and similar sources, the possibility of investigating the quantitative aspects of trade is all but eliminated. However, in those areas of trade which have been described as qualitative, such as the variety of goods exchanged, the specialization of the merchant class, and the complexity of business methods, legal and other literary sources provide a great deal of valuable information. It is with the institutions of partnership and commends in the early Islamic period, two of the qualitative components of trade, that Abraham L. Udovitch makes his primary focus in Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islam.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Proprietary Partnership (Sharikat al-milk)

III. The Ḥanafı Mufāwaḍa Partnership

IV. Ḥanafı Limited Investment Partnership (Ίnān)

V. Mālikī Partnership

VI. The Commenda (Muḍāraba, Qirāḍ, Muqāraḍa)

VII. Islamic Law: Theory and Practice

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613101907

9781283101905

1283101904

9781400820474

1400820472

OCLC:

727649187