Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of CapitalismWalter de Gruyter, 2006 - Broj stranica: 381 Presented in six principal analytic chapters with supporting appendices, this book explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe's twelfth century commercial renaissance. Employing the classic analytic techniques of economics, Gene Heck determines that medieval Europe's feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns. He then proceeds by demonstrating how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in "Dark Age economics" ― in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism. While treatises such as Maxime Rodinson's excellent book, Islam and Capitalism, document the capitalistic nature of the Islamic economic system, in applying modern economic method to medieval orientalist historiography, this work is unique in capturing both the evolution and the impact of the system's role in forging medieval history. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Medieval Christian Europe in Stasis | 13 |
The Muslims Medieval Trade Explosion | 41 |
Islamic Free Market Doctrine Pragmatically Applied | 81 |
The Fruition of Commercial Capitalism in Fatimid Egypt | 115 |
Imperatives of Trade and the Transformation of Europe | 161 |
Medieval Europes Transformation The Triumph Of Ideas | 211 |
Islam and Medieval Europes Economic Recrudescence | 259 |
Trade Routes Leading to the Hijaz at the Dawn of Islam | 289 |
The Islamic Doctrine of Private Gain in the Free Market | 297 |
F Principal Trade Routes of the Radhanite Jews | 305 |
H Imperatives of Trade and the Transformation of Europe | 315 |
J The Echoes of Islamic Exegesis in Early Christian Protestant | 321 |
Source Analysis | 337 |
Bibliography | 343 |
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A Early Medieval Muslim Perceptions of the European West | 265 |
B The Dispersion Of Islamic Global Trade | 273 |
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