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MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ECONOMIC THOUGH

Name: MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ECONOMIC THOUGH
Brand: Vanguard Books
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FILLING THE "GREAT GAP" IN EUROPEAN ECONOMICS

By SM GHAZANFAR

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Description

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 civilisation 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.

About the Author

S.M. Ghazanfar has been a faculty member at the University of Idaho since 1968, and has received numerous awards for scholarly contributions. He has published in various areas of economics, and his recent work has been the origins of economic thought in medieval Islamic scholarship. He recently contributed to the television documentary Islam: Empire of Faith (2001).