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Author : Peter Gran
Release : 2001
Genre : Capitalism
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Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Islamic roots of capitalism : Egypt, 1760 1840 by : Peter Gran
Download or read book Islamic roots of capitalism : Egypt, 1760 1840 written by Peter Gran. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Gran
Release : 1998-07-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Islamic Roots of Capitalism by : Peter Gran
Download or read book Islamic Roots of Capitalism written by Peter Gran. This book was released on 1998-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today’s readers. New historical data on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than when Islamic Roots of Capitalism first was published.
Author : Benedikt Koehler
Release : 2014-06-17
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 836/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism by : Benedikt Koehler
Download or read book Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism written by Benedikt Koehler. This book was released on 2014-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis—that capitalism first emerged in Arabia, not in late medieval Italian city states as is commonly assumed. Early Islam made a seminal but largely unrecognized contribution to the history of economic thought; it is the only religion founded by an entrepreneur. Descending from an elite dynasty of religious, civil, and commercial leaders, Muhammad was a successful businessman before founding Islam. As such, the new religion had much to say on trade, consumer protection, business ethics, and property. As Islam rapidly spread across the region so did the economic teachings of early Islam, which eventually made their way to Europe. Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism demonstrates how Islamic institutions and business practices were adopted and adapted in Venice and Genoa. These financial innovations include the invention of the corporation, business management techniques, commercial arithmetic, and monetary reform. There were other Islamic institutions assimilated in Europe: charities, the waqf, inspired trusts, and institutions of higher learning; the madrasas were models for the oldest colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As such, it can be rightfully said that these essential aspects of capitalist thought all have Islamic roots.
Author : Gene William Heck
Release : 2008-08-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism by : Gene William Heck
Download or read book Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism written by Gene William Heck. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in six principal analytic chapters with supporting appendices, this book explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe’s twelfth century commercial renaissance. Employing the classic analytic techniques of economics, Gene Heck determines that medieval Europe’s feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns. He then proceeds by demonstrating how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in “Dark Age economics” ― in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism. While treatises such as Maxime Rodinson’s excellent book, Islam and Capitalism, document the capitalistic nature of the Islamic economic system, in applying modern economic method to medieval orientalist historiography, this work is unique in capturing both the evolution and the impact of the system’s role in forging medieval history.
Author : Murat Çizakça
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Islamic Capitalism and Finance by : Murat Çizakça
Download or read book Islamic Capitalism and Finance written by Murat Çizakça. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was a humbling experience to read the product of such a remarkable feat of scholarship. It is all at once an exploration in analytic history and a complete text of Islamic finance theory and application. It is also one of the most succinct renditions of the evolution of Islamic finance embedded in a comprehensive account of the particularities of economies as diverse as Malaysia and Turkey. This is a unique contribution to Islamic finance and Islamic economic history. It has been a rewarding learning experience. It is truly a breathtaking effort.' – Abbas Mirakhor, former IMF Executive Director and the recipient of the Islamic Development Bank Prize in Islamic Economics (2003) This illuminating and thought-provoking book questions whether classical Islamic capitalism, which has served Muslims so well for centuries, can provide a viable alternative world economic system. In the current recession – the worst since 1929 – this is surely a provocative question. But if Islamic capitalism is to emerge as a viable alternative, its nature and systems must be well understood. Murat Çizakça explores key issues within Islamic capitalism and finance, shedding light on whether the Islamic system can indeed be called 'capitalist', the principles on which the system was built, the institutions that were consequently developed, how they function and have evolved, and, perhaps, most importantly, whether they can be modernized to meet today's needs. Against the backdrop of rapid change in the Middle East, this book gives a solid background to the economic systems that will emerge in the world of Islam. An essential guide to the past, present and future of Islamic economy and finance, this compelling book will prove to be of particular interest to academics and researchers of economics, finance, economic and financial history and political science.
