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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Abundance and Scarcity: Introduction
• 2. Abundance and Scarcity: Greek Economic Thought
• 3. Abundance and Scarcity: Christian Economic Thought
• 4. Abundance and Scarcity: Classical Economic Thought
• 5. Abundance and Scarcity: Neoclassical Economic Thought
• 6. Critiques of the Scarcity Paradigm
• 7. Abundance and Scarcity: Islamic Economic Thought
• 8. Wealth and Poverty: Introduction
• 9. Wealth and Poverty: Greek Economic Thought
• 10. Wealth and Poverty: Christian Economic Thought
• 11. Wealth and Poverty: Classical Economic Thought
• 12. Wealth and Poverty: Neoclassical Economic Thought and Its Critics
• 13. Wealth and Poverty: Islamic Economic Thought
• 14. Charity and Usury: Introduction
• 15. Charity: An Intellectual History
• 16. Usury: An Intellectual History
• 17. Charity and Usury: Reunified
• 18. Self-Interest and Rationality: Introduction
• 19. Self-Interest: An Intellectual History
• 20. Self-Interest and Rationality: The Modern Connection
• 21. Islam, Rationality, and Self-Interest
• 22. Utopias and Markets: Introduction
• 23. Utopias
• 24. The Market as Utopia: The 'Invisible Hand' Thesis
• 25. Markets in Islam. .