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Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah was a genius and prolific writer.Anyone who has an interest in the Qur'ans translation, Hadith literatureInternational Islamic Law, Islamic Politics and archival heritage of Islamcannot ignore Dr. Hamidullah's contributions. He started writings on thesubject of Islamic Economics as early as the 1930s. He was a pioneer in Islamiceconomics and many firsts in this subject belong to him. For instance: interest freefinancial institutions in the modern period, advocacy of mutuality as thebasis for Islamic insurance, mutuality based Islamic finance and proposal forestablishment of international interest-free monetary fund. He also critiquescurrent systems and offers an alternative. His works are also a rich sourceof Islamic economic history. None of his contemporaries in the first half oftwentieth century had written on such a diverse aspect of the subject.

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Author:   Abdul Azim Islahi
Publisher:   Islamic Foundation
Imprint:   Islamic Foundation
ISBN:  

9780860379140

ISBN 10:   0860379140
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   14 January 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgement                          Foreword                                Preface                                 Preface To The Second Edition                  1   Muhammad Hamidullah: Life and Works          2   An Introduction to Hamidullah’s: Contributions to Islamic Economics                       3   Zakah as The State Finance: A Critical Study of Hamidullah’s Views                      4  Islam’s Solution of The Basic Economic Problems: The Position of Labour                    5  Property (An International Islamic Perspective)    6   Islamic Insurance                       7   Interest-Free Cooperative Lending Societies       8   The Political Significance of Zakah            9   Islam and Communism                    10  Haidarabad’s Contribution to Islamic Economic Thought and Practice                 11 A Suggestion for an Interest-Free Islamic Monetary Fund  12 Budgeting and Taxation in The Time of The Holy Prophet  13 The Economic System of Islam  14 Revenue and Calendar  15 Financial Administration in The Muslim State  16 Book Review – 1  17 Book Review – 2  18 Book Review – 3  Bibliography  Index    

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Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is theformer Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University Islamic Economics.He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding thefrontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD fromAligarh Muslim University in 1981. He is considered an authority on thehistory of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is ""EconomicConcepts of Ibn Taimiyah"" (Islamic Foundation, UK, 1988, republished in 1996).He has contributed four articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics(London, 2009). He has to his credit 20 books and more than 100 researchpapers on the subject of Islamic Economics published in various national andinternational refereed journals. Prof. Islahi recently received the Istanbul-basedIslamic Economics Research Centre, IKAM's Islamic Economics ContributionAward for his Lifetime Achievement in the field of Islamic Economics.

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