Prophecy, Piety, and Profits A Conceptual and Comparative History of Islamic Economic Thought /

• Main Author: Reda, Ayman (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Middle East-Economic conditions.; International economics.; Islam.; Religion-History.; Economic History.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Middle Eastern and North African Economics.; International Economics.; History of Religion.

This book examines, in greater depth than the existing literature, the history of Islamic economic thought. It seeks to introduce Islamic views to debates surrounding critical economic concepts, such as scarcity, wealth, poverty, charity, usury, self-interest, rationality, and markets. It does so th...