Table of Contents

1. Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars: The "Great Gap" Thesis Reconsidered  2. Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu-Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD)  3. Economic Thought and Religious Thought: A Comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi  4. A Rejoinder to "Economic Thought and Religious Thought"  5. Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought: Some Aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's Economics  6. History of Economic Thought: The Schumpeterian "Great Gap", the "lost" Arab-Islamic Legacy and the Literature Gap  7. Understanding the Market Mechanism before Adam Smith: Economic Thought in Medieval Islam  8. Innaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" Thesis: Economic Thought in Medieval Iran (Persia)  9. Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Ecomic Thought: Some Aspects of Ibn Qayyim's Economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD)  10. Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought: Links with Greek and Latin-European Scholarship  11. Post-Greek/Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought: Contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the "Great Gap" Centuries  12. The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: Some Comparative Parallels and Links  13. Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) Economics of Public Finance 14. Public-Sector Economics in Medieval Economic Thought: Contributions of Selected Arab-Islamic Scholars  15. Medieval Social Thought European Renaissance: The Influence of Selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics

About the Author

S.M. Ghazanfar

Reviews

'A comprehensive and analytical bibliography and a detailed Index of authors accompany this well-prepared and weighty edition.' - Journal of Oriental and African Studies