Islamic Economics : A Short History

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- TRANSLITERATION OF ARABIC LETTERS -- CHAPTER ONE PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA POETRY, TRIBAL RIVALRY AND HEROISM (800 B.C.-610 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Biblical Connections -- The Land and the People -- Social Organization and Settlement Patterns -- Arabian Civilizations -- Trade and Finance in Makkah -- The Bedouin in Islam -- CHAPTER TWO THE BIRTH OF THE ISLAMIC STATE ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN THE QUR'ÀN AND SUNNAH (610 A.C.-632 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Sources of the Islamic Economic Thought -- Economic Thought in the Qur'àn and the Sunnah Basic Philosophy -- Basic Philosophy -- Application of Basic Philosophy -- Islamic Economics in the Qur"àn and Sunnah and the Present Time -- CHAPTER THREE ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF THE RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS (632 A.C.-661 A.C.) -- Introduction -- The Caliphate -- The First Caliph Abù-Bakr (632-634) -- The Second Caliph Umar (634-644) -- The Third Caliph Uthmàn (644-656) -- The Fourth Caliph Ali (656-661) -- CHAPTER FOUR THE DYNASTIC CALIPHATES THE UMAYYADS AND THE REFORMS (661 A.C.-750 A.C.) -- Introduction -- The Caliphate and the Dynasty -- Islamic Expansion and the Need for Administrative Reform -- Administrative and Economic Reforms -- Monetary Reform -- Islamic Urbanisation -- Agriculture -- Trade and Commerce -- Legal Forms of Business -- State Finance -- CHAPTER FIVE THE ABBASÌD'S GOLDEN AGE THE FLORESCENCE OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS (750 A.C.-1000 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Leading Specialised Work on Islamic Economics -- Main Changes in the Economic Features -- Intellectual Development -- Jurisprudence Schools of Thought -- The First Specialised Books on Islamic Economics -- Abù-Yùsuf (113-182 A.H., 731-798 A.C.) Kitàb al-Kharàj, Treatise in al-Kharàj -- Al-Shaibànì (132-189 A.H., 750-804 A.C.): From Macro-Economics to Micro-Economics Kitàb al-Iktisàb, Book of Earnings.