Economic Thinking of Arab Muslim Writers During the Nineteenth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 1-5

3. The Nineteenth Century Arab World: An Overview

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 6-25

4. Thinking on Economic Issues in a Traditional Way: Al-Shawkani and Ibn Abidin

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 26-41

5. The Economic Thought of Azharite Scholars: Rifāʿah al-Tahtawi and Muhammad Abduh

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 42-77

6. The Economic Ideas of Two Tunisian Statesmen: Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and Bayram al-Khamis

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 78-105

7. The Economic Thinking of Arab Literati: Mubarak, al-Nadim and al-Kawakibi

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 106-131

8. Conclusion

   • Abdul Azim Islahi

   Pages 132-138

9. Back Matter

   Pages 139-165

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Islahi explores the state of Arab Muslim economic thinking in the 19th century. Investigating the works of nine distinguished Arab writers from various fields, Islahi concludes that the intellectual, economic and Islamic awakening seen in the 19th century paved the way for the development of Islamic economics in the 20th century.

• development
• economics
• history

“The present book is an attempt to analyse the writing of some Arab scholars on economics from the Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria mainly. … The book under review is a very good contribution to Islamic economics as it extends textual interpretation to the formulation of a coherent view of how to achieve economic development and how these great personalities, in their own different ways, attended to the crisis of the Arab world in the 19th century.” (Faizal Ahmad Manjoo, The Muslim World, Vol. 37 (1), 2016)

• Islamic Economics Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  Abdul Azim Islahi

Dr Abdul Azim Islahi is Professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has spent more than 35 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. His main contribution is filling the research gap in the history of Islamic economic thought.

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