Islamic Economics: A Short History

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introduction by Abù-Yùsuf, 178
rates of, 181
threshold for, 182
muqàssah, 414
muràbaœah, 367–368, 404, 414
mushàrakahpartnership, 22, 404, 415
muslaha, 377
Muslim Brotherhood Society (1928),
323–324, 329
Muslim Ibn al-Hajjàj (d. 875 A.C.), 34
Muslim Students Association (MSA), 354
al-Mùsta"sìm, 228
al-Mu"tamid (d. 892 A.C.), 128
al-Mutanabbi Abùal-Tayyaib Ahmad
(d. 955 A.C.), 225, 229
al-Mùtawakkil III, Muœammad,
286–287
Mu"tazilahmovement, 168, 215
mysticism. see also flùfìsm, 211,
304–305, 324


Nabataeans, 15–16, 415
al-Naggar, Ahmed, 335, 366–367
Najran, 5, 13
Najran massacre, 13
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 289,
294, 319, 320
Naqvi, S., 373
al-Nasà"i, Abù'Abd al-Rahmàn
(d. 915 A.C.), 35
National Investment Trust
(NIT)(Pakistan), 334
nationalization, 60, 374–375, 396
Native Protestant Church of Syria, 293
natural resources
definition, 46
as factor of production, 63, 106–107
nationalization of, 60
reallocation of, 60
wastage of, 41–42, 60
Western versus Islamic theory, 45
nepotism, 117, 118, 147, 148
net present value, 282
niggardliness, 68, 199
Night Journey, 95
Nihayat al-Ruthbah fi ̨alab al-Œisbah(al-
Shayzari), 262
Nihayat al-Ruthbah fi ̨alab al-Œisbah
(Ibn-Bassam), 262
“No God but One”. see Tawhìd
nomadism, 5, 18–19
Non-Arab separatist movement,
225–230


non-Muslims. see also Christians; foreign
communities; Jews
and charity, 75
land ownership, 152, 160–161,
186–187
legislation about, 194
right to hold office, 293
taxation on, 31, 112, 145, 150, 192
North Arabia, 3, 15–18
nunneries, 47
Observance of God’s Right (al-Muœàsibì),
211
Old Cairo, 135, 140–142, 232
“Omm al-Qra”, 5
Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC)
economic features of, 331–334
establishing Fiqh Academy, 403
founding of, 330
main objectives, 330–331
role in economic cooperation, 383–385
table of inflows and outflows, 385
table of intra-trade, 384
orphans, 78, 86, 88
Orthodox Caliphate. seeRightly-Guided
Caliphate
Ottoman Empire
caliphate during, 93–94, 230,
286–287
fall of, 297–301
and the Mumluks, 319
Sharì"ah during, 295–297
start of, 285–286
Ulama"during, 295–297
Western influence in, 299–301
Our Economics (Bàqir-al-Sadr), 392–399
Our Economics (Majlisi), 305
Our Philosophy (Bàqir-al-Sadr), 393
ownership. see also collective ownership;
land ownership; private ownership;
public ownership
Bàqir-al-Sadr on, 396–398
by trusteeship, 39–40, 55–56,
61–62, 66
paganism, 13, 20, 26–27, 96
Pakistan
International Islamic Universities,
342, 345–346
Islamicisation of economic system, 334
partition from India, 329
reformers from, 325–326
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