Book contents
- The Making of Islamic Economic Thought
- The Making of Islamic Economic Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Force of Revivalism and Islamization
- 2 The Present: Muslim Economists and the Constellation of Islamic Economics
- 3 The Past Perfect: Sharīʿa and the Intellectual History of Islamic Economic Teachings
- 4 The Appraisal: Contemporary Islamic Economics and the Entrenchment of Modernity
- 5 Pluralistic Epistemology of Islam’s Moral Economics
- Conclusion: Moral over Legal, Pluralistic over Monolithic
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2021
Book contents
- The Making of Islamic Economic Thought
- The Making of Islamic Economic Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Force of Revivalism and Islamization
- 2 The Present: Muslim Economists and the Constellation of Islamic Economics
- 3 The Past Perfect: Sharīʿa and the Intellectual History of Islamic Economic Teachings
- 4 The Appraisal: Contemporary Islamic Economics and the Entrenchment of Modernity
- 5 Pluralistic Epistemology of Islam’s Moral Economics
- Conclusion: Moral over Legal, Pluralistic over Monolithic
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Economic thought in Islamic tradition is not about economics as we understand it in modern terms, with respect to material prosperity, economic development, and consumption and transfer of wealth. In fact, one could state that economic thought as analyzed by classical Muslim scholars is least concerned with such pursuits. Rather, it pertains to much broader human and Divine relations, as well as behavioral patterns of spiritual, metaphysical, and, above all, moral qualities, irreducible to merely the natural order.
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- The Making of Islamic Economic ThoughtIslamization, Law, and Moral Discourses, pp. 1 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022