Economic Thinking of Arab Muslim Writers During the Nineteenth Century

by Azim Islahi, Abdul

• ISBN13: 9781137553201
• ISBN10: 1137553200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Islahi explores the economic ideas of nine Arab writers of diverse fields and from different regions: Ibn Abidin and al-Kawakibi from Syria, al-Shawkani from Yemen, al-Tunisi and al-Khamis from Tunisia, al-Tahtawi, Mubark, al-Nadim, and Abduh from Egypt.
The author highlights that economic issues had become the common concern of the nineteenth-century ?ulama' (religious sages), scholars, statesmen and literati. This was a new trend, not seen in previous centuries, which Islahi calls 'the awakening phase' in the history of Islam in which three types of stirring were observed: intellectual, economic and Islamic awakening – a phenomenon that caused the development of modern Islamic economics in the twentieth century.
This book makes an important and unique contribution to the history of Islamic economic thought.

Author Biography

Dr Abdul Azim Islahi is Professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has spent more than 35 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. His main contribution is filling the research gap in the history of Islamic economic thought.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
2. The Nineteenth Century Arab World: An Overview
3. Thinking on Economic Issues in a Traditional Way:
al-Shawkani and Ibn Abidin
4. The Economic Thought of Azharite Scholars
Rifa'ah al-Tahtawa and Muhammad Abduh
5. The Economic Ideas of Two Tunisian Statesmen:
Khayr Al-Din al-Tunisi and Bayram al-Khamis
6. The Economic Thinking of Arab Literati:
Mubarak, al-Nadim, and al-Kawakibi
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index