Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics / Edition 1

by S.M. Ghazanfar

Overview

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the 'great gap' in economic history. Unfortunately, this 'gap' is well embedded in most relevant literature. However, during this period the Islamic civilization was one of the most fertile grounds for intellectual developments in various disciplines, including economics, and this book attempts to fill that blind-spot in the history of economic thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415444514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/16/2007
Series:	Routledge Islamic Studies Series
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors S. Todd Lowry Foreword Acknowledgements 1. S.M. Ghazanfar Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars: The Great Gap thesis reconsidered 2. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu-Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD) 3. Paul Oslington Economic Thought and Religious Thought: A comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi 4. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi A Rejoinder to Economic Thought and Religious Thought 5. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought: Some aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's economics 6. S.M. Gahzanfar History of Economic Thought: The Schumpeterian Great Gap, the lost Arab-Islamic legacy and the literature gap 7. Hamid Hosseini Understanding the Market Mechanism before Adam Smith: Economic thought in medieval Islam 8. Hamid Hosseini Innaccuracy of the Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis: Economic thought in medieval Iran (Persia) 9. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Ecomic Thought: Some aspects of Ibn Qayyim's economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD) 10. S.M. Ghazanfar Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought: Links with Greek and Latin-European scholarship 11. S.M.Ghazanfar Post-Greek/Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought: Contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the Great Gap centuries 12. S.M. Ghazanfar The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: Some comparative parallels and links 13. M. Nejatullah Siddiqi and S.M. Ghazanfar Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) economics of public finance 14. S.M. Ghazanfar Public-Sector Economics in Medieval Economic Thought: Contributions of selected Arab-Islamic scholars 15. S.M. Ghazanfar Medieval Social Thought European Renaissance: The influence of selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'A comprehensive and analytical bibliography and a detailed Index of authors accompany this well-prepared and weighty edition.' - Journal of Oriental and African Studies

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