�izak癟a (comparative economic history and Islamic finance, the Global U. of Islamic Finance, Malaysia) wonders whether the economic system that has served Muslims well for centuries might
provide an alternative to Western capitalism, which is showing signs of weakness. For that question even to be addressed seriously, he says, that system must be understood beyond Islam. He
discusses such issues as whether a system that predated Adam Smith by a thousand years can be called capitalist, what principles it is founded on, what institutions have grown from those
principles, how they have functioned, and whether they can be adapted to the modern world. Among his topics are two approaches to Islamic economics and finance, the evolution of medieval
Islamic business partnerships in the Islamic world and the West, voluntary redistribution of wealth, borrowing from the public, and democracy and the modern Islamic capitalism. Annotation 穢2012
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