Table of Contents

1. Scholastic Economics and Arab Scholars: The "Great Gap" Thesis Reconsidered 2. Economic Thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu-Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD) 3. Economic Thought and Religious Thought: A Comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi 4. A Rejoinder to "Economic Thought and Religious Thought" 5. Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic Thought: Some Aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's Economics 6. History of Economic Thought: The Schumpeterian "Great Gap", the "lost" Arab-Islamic Legacy and the Literature Gap 7. Understanding the Market Mechanism before Adam Smith: Economic Thought in Medieval Islam 8. Innaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" Thesis: Economic Thought in Medieval Iran (Persia) 9. Explorations in Medieval Arab-Islamic Ecomic Thought: Some Aspects of Ibn Qayyim's Economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD) 10. Medieval Islamic Socio-Economic Thought: Links with Greek and Latin-European Scholarship 11. Post-Greek/Pre-Renaissance Economic Thought: Contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the "Great Gap" Centuries 12. The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: Some Comparative Parallels and Links 13. Early Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) Economics of Public Finance 14. Public-Sector Economics in Medieval Economic Thought: Contributions of Selected Arab-Islamic Scholars 15. Medieval Social Thought European Renaissance: The Influence of Selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics

About the Author

S.M. Ghazanfar

Reviews

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