Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism (eBook)

Gene William Heck (Autor)

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2006
395 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-020283-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Gene W. Heck explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe's twelfth century commercial renaissance. Determining that Europe's medieval feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns, he demonstrates how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empoweredmedieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in 'Dark Age economics'- in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism.

Gene W. Heck, Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Gene W. Heck, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 11
Introduction 15
Chapter 1 Medieval Christian Europe in Stasis 27
Chapter 2 The Muslims’ Medieval “Trade Explosion” 55
Chapter 3 Islamic “Free Market” Doctrine Pragmatically Applied 95
Chapter 4 The Fruition of “Commercial Capitalism” in Fatimid Egypt 129
Chapter 5 Imperatives of Trade and the Transformation of Europe 175
Chapter 6 Medieval Europe’s Transformation: “The Triumph Of Ideas” 225
Backmatter 273

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"[...] the author's command of medieval Islamic history and his thorough synthesis of a large volume of Islamic and Western sources to establishhis findings are strinkingly impressive. He fruitfully combined the work of many Muslim jurists, renowned medieval historians and geographers in the medieval era."
Seif Tag Eddin in: The Muslims World Book Review 4/2007

"[...] the subject matter dealt with here is one of great historical significance [...]."
Maya Shatzmiller in: Der Islam (Redaktion) Asien-Afrika-Institut 85, 2-2008

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients
• Reihe/Serie: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: business economics • Europa • Islam • Islam/ Economics • Islamic history • Medieval Global Trade • Mittelalter • Renaissance/ Europe • Renaissance/ Europe; Islamic History; Medieval Global Trade; Islam/ Economics; Business Economics
• ISBN-10: 3-11-020283-2 / 3110202832
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-020283-0 / 9783110202830