Islamic Economics: A Short History

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15134-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1002 g

Reihe: Themes in Islamic Studies

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 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 subsequent profusion of writing, with the works of the leading contributors reviewed in this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

El-Ashker, Ahmed

Wilson, Rodney

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgement
Transliteration of Arabic Letters

Pre-Islamic Arabia: Poetry, Tribal Rivalry
and Heroism (800 B.C.–10 A.C.)
The Birth of the Islamic State: Economic Thought in the Qur"àn
and Sunnah (610 A.C.–632 A.C.)
Thought of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (632 A.C.–661 A.C.)
The Dynastic Caliphates: The Umayyads
and the Reforms (661 A.C.–750 A.C.)
The Abbasìd’s Golden Age: The Florescence
of Islamic Economics (750 A.C.–1000 A.C.)
Political Fragmentation and Cultural Diversity
(1000 A.C.–1400 A.C.)
The Three Empires and the Islamic Phoenix
(1400 A.C.–1800 A.C.)
The Crisis of Modernisation and Islamicisation:

From Reform to Revival (1800 A.C.–20th Century)
Islamic Economic Renaissance: Islamic Economics in the Twentieth Century

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rodney Wilson is Director of Postgraduate Studies at Durham University’s Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.Ahmed El-Ashker is Professor of Finance in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand.
Both authors have written numerous books and articles on Islamic economics, banking and finance.