Poverty and charity in the rise of Islam / Michael Bonner -- Status-based definitions of need in early Islamic Zakat … welfare / Juan R.I. Cole -- Islam, philanthropy, and political culture in interwar Egypt : the activism of Labiba Ahmad / Beth …

-- Introduction -- Part I: Entitlement and Obligation -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam by Michael Bonner -- 2. Status … -- Part IV: Changing Worlds -- 11. Al-Tahtawi on Poverty and Welfare by Juan R. I. Cole -- 12. Islam, Philanthropy, and … the Social and Economic History. …

The puzzle of the Middle East's economic retardation -- Analyzing the economic role of Islam -- Commercial life under … absence of Middle Eastern consuls -- Did Islam inhibit economic development? …

Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism … attitudes or some incompatibility between Islam and capitalism. Rather, starting around the tenth century, Islamic legal … institutions, which had benefitted the Middle Eastern economy in the early centuries of Islam, began to act as a drag on …