Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics (Routledge Islamic Studies Series)

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the 'great gap' in economic history. Unfortunately, this 'gap' is well embedded in most relevant literature. However, during this period the Islamic civilization was one of the most fertile grounds for intellectual developments in various disciplines, including economics, and this book attempts to fill that blind-spot in the history of economic thought. Scholastic Economics And Arab Scholars : The Great Gap Thesis Reconsidered / S.m. Ghazanfar And Azim Islahi -- Economic Thought Of An Arab Scholastic : Abu Hamid Al-ghazali (ah450-505/1058-111ad) / S.m. Ghazanfar And A. Azim Islahi -- Economic Thought And Religious Thought : A Comment On Ghazanfar And Islahi / Paul Oslington -- A Rejoinder To Economic Thought And Religious Thought / S.m. Ghazanfar And A. Azim Islahi -- History Of Economic Thought : The Schumpeterian Great Gap, The Lost Arab-islamic Legacy And The Literature Gap / S.m. Ghazanfar -- Understanding The Market Mechanism Before Adam Smith : Economic Thought In Medieval Islam / Hamid Hosseini -- Inaccuracy Of The Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis: Economic Thought In Medieval Iran (persia) / Hamid Hosseini -- Explorations In Medieval Arab-islamic Economic Thought : Some Aspects Of Ibn Qayyim's Economics (ah691-751/1292-1350ad) / S.m. Ghazanfar And A.azim Islahi -- Medieval Islamic Socio-economic Thought : Links With Greek And Latin-european Scholarship / S.m. Ghazanfar -- Post-greek/pre-renaissance Economic Thought : Contributions Of Arab-islamic Scholastics During The Great Gap Centuries / S.m. Ghazanfar -- The Economic Thought Of Abu Hamid Al-ghazali And St Thomas Aquinas : Some Comparative Parallels And Links / S.m. Ghazanfar -- Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought : Abu Yousuf's (731-798ad) Economics Of Public Finance / M. Nejatullah Siddiqi And S.m. Ghazanfar -- Public-sector Economics In Medieval Economic Thought : Contributions Of Selected Arab-islamic Scholars / S.m. Ghazanfar. Edited By S.m. Ghazanfar ; Foreword By S. Todd Lowry. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 261-275) And Index. This is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin scholastics, who include St Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the "great gap" in economic history. Unfortunately, this gap is well embedded in most relevant literature. However, during this period the Islamic civilization was one of the most fertile grounds for intellectual developments in various disciplines, including economics, and this book attempts to fill that blind spot in the history of economic thought