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Notes on contributors S. Todd Lowry Foreword Acknowledgements 1. S.M. Ghazanfar Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars: The Great Gap thesis reconsidered 2. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu-Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD) 3. Paul Oslington Economic Thought and Religious Thought: A comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi 4. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi A Rejoinder to Economic Thought and Religious Thought 5. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought: Some aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's economics 6. S.M. Gahzanfar History of Economic Thought: The Schumpeterian Great Gap, the lost Arab-Islamic legacy and the literature gap 7. Hamid Hosseini Understanding the Market Mechanism before Adam Smith: Economic thought in medieval Islam 8. Hamid Hosseini Innaccuracy of the Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis: Economic thought in medieval Iran (Persia) 9. S.M. Ghazanfar and A. Azim Islahi Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Ecomic Thought: Some aspects of Ibn Qayyim's economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD) 10. S.M. Ghazanfar Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought: Links with Greek and Latin-European scholarship 11. S.M.Ghazanfar Post-Greek/Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought: Contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the Great Gap centuries 12. S.M. Ghazanfar The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: Some comparative parallels and links 13. M. Nejatullah Siddiqi and S.M. Ghazanfar Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) economics of public finance 14. S.M. Ghazanfar Public-Sector Economics in Medieval Economic Thought: Contributions of selected Arab-Islamic scholars 15. S.M. Ghazanfar Medieval Social Thought European Renaissance: The influence of selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics Bibliography Index

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'A comprehensive and analytical bibliography and a detailed Index of authors accompany this well-prepared and weighty edition.' - "Journal of Oriental and African Studies"