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

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Foreword xi
• Acknowledgements xiv
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars 6
• 2 - Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic 23
• 3 - Economic Thought and Religious Thought 45
• 4 - A Rejoinder to "Economic Thought and Religious Thought" 49
• 5 - Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought 53
• 6 - History of Economic Thought 72
• 7 - Understanding the Market Mechanism Before Adam Smith 88
• 8 - Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" Thesis 108
• 9 - Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought 128
• 10 - Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought 142
• 11 - Post-Greek/ Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought 159

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Foreword xi
• Acknowledgements xiv
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars 6
• 2 - Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic 23
• 3 - Economic Thought and Religious Thought 45
• 4 - A Rejoinder to "Economic Thought and Religious Thought" 49
• 5 - Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought 53
• 6 - History of Economic Thought 72
• 7 - Understanding the Market Mechanism Before Adam Smith 88
• 8 - Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" Thesis 108
• 9 - Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought 128
• 10 - Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought 142
• 11 - Post-Greek/ Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought 159
• 12 - The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas 184
• 13 - Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought 209
• 14 - Public-Sector Economics in Medieval Economic Thought 228
• 15 - Medieval Social Thought and European Renaissance 245
• Bibliography 261
• Index 276