CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- TRANSLITERATION OF ARABIC LETTERS -- CHAPTER ONE PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA POETRY, TRIBAL RIVALRY AND HEROISM (800 B.C.-610 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Biblical Connections -- The Land and the People -- Social Organization and Settlement Patterns -- Arabian Civilizations -- Trade and Finance in Makkah -- The Bedouin in Islam -- CHAPTER TWO THE BIRTH OF THE ISLAMIC STATE ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN THE QUR'ÀN AND SUNNAH (610 A.C.-632 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Sources of the Islamic Economic Thought -- Economic Thought in the Qur'àn and the Sunnah Basic Philosophy -- Basic Philosophy -- Application of Basic Philosophy -- Islamic Economics in the Qur"àn and Sunnah and the Present Time -- CHAPTER THREE ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF THE RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS (632 A.C.-661 A.C.) -- Introduction -- The Caliphate -- The First Caliph Abù-Bakr (632-634) -- The Second Caliph Umar (634-644) -- The Third Caliph Uthmàn (644-656) -- The Fourth Caliph Ali (656-661) -- CHAPTER FOUR THE DYNASTIC CALIPHATES THE UMAYYADS AND THE REFORMS (661 A.C.-750 A.C.) -- Introduction -- The Caliphate and the Dynasty -- Islamic Expansion and the Need for Administrative Reform -- Administrative and Economic Reforms -- Monetary Reform -- Islamic Urbanisation -- Agriculture -- Trade and Commerce -- Legal Forms of Business -- State Finance -- CHAPTER FIVE THE ABBASÌD'S GOLDEN AGE THE FLORESCENCE OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS (750 A.C.-1000 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Leading Specialised Work on Islamic Economics -- Main Changes in the Economic Features -- Intellectual Development -- Jurisprudence Schools of Thought -- The First Specialised Books on Islamic Economics -- Abù-Yùsuf (113-182 A.H., 731-798 A.C.) Kitàb al-Kharàj, Treatise in al-Kharàj -- Al-Shaibànì (132-189 A.H., 750-804 A.C.): From Macro-Economics to Micro-Economics Kitàb al-Iktisàb, Book of Earnings.

Abù-Ubaid (d. 224 H., 838 A.C.) Kitàb al-Amwàl, Book of Wealth -- The Contribution of Sùfìsm to Islamic Economic Thought -- Abdullah al-OEarith bin Asad al-Muoeasibì, (d. 243 A.H., 857 A.C.) Kitàb Risalat al-Iktisàb wa al Wara', Treatise on Earning and Asceticism -- CHAPTER SIX POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY (1000 A.C.-1400 A.C.) -- Introduction -- Political Fragmentation -- The Collapse and Restoration of the Caliphate -- Intellectual Diversity -- Abù al-Hasan al-Màwardì (364-450 A.H., 972-1058 A.C.) al-Aoekàm al-Sùltàniyyah, Book of State Ordinance -- Al-Ràghib al-A›fahànì (d. 502 A.H./1108 A.C.) al-Zarì'ah fi Makàrim al-Sharì'ah, Means of Glorious Sharì"ah -- Abù-Hamid al-Ghazàlì (450-505 A.H./1058-1111 A.C.) Ioeya' Ulùm al-Dìn, The Revival of the Science of Religion -- Ja"afer al-Dìmashqì (late 12th century) al-Isharah fi Maoeàsin al-Tijarah, Book of Good Trading -- The Institution of Ĥisbah and Business Sector Governance -- Writing on Ĥisbah -- Ibn-al-Ukhùwwah (d. 1329) Ma'alim al-Qùrbah fi Aoekàm al-OEisbah Rules of Accountability and Public Duties -- Ibn Taymìya (661-728 A.H./1263-1328 A.C.) al-Ĥisbah fi al Islam, Public Duties in Islam -- Ibn-Khaldùn (1332-1406) al-Mùqaddimah, An Introduction to History -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE THREE EMPIRES AND THE ISLAMIC PHOENIX( 1400 A.C.-1800 A.C.) -- Introduction -- The Ottoman Empire -- The Ŝafawìd Empire -- The Mongol Empire -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE CRISIS OF MODERNISATION AND ISLAMICISATION: FROM REFORM TO REVIVAL (1800 A.C.-20TH CENTURY) -- Introduction -- First: Traditional Reform Movements -- Second: Reconciling Reform Movements -- Third: Secularisation Reform Movements -- Islam Triumphant: the Revival -- Main Features of Revivalism -- Intellectual Developments -- CHAPTER NINE ISLAMIC ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE: ISLAMIC ECONOMICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Introduction -- Influencing Factors.

The Topics -- Bàqir al-Sadr -- Iqtisàduna, Our Economics -- The Future of Islamic Economics -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.