Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Orientalism and Ersatz Islam -- Weber …, New-Orientalism and Ersatz Islam -- Secularism and the New-Orientalism -- Ersatz Islam, "Islamic Law," Shari'ah, and … Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) -- Ersatz Islam and the Marxist Paradigm54 -- For Whom the Orientalist Bell Tolls? -- References …

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 … dynasty of religious, civil, and commercial leaders, Muhammad was a successful businessman before founding Islam. As such, the …