First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2004. Did medieval Muslims have the concept of a 'social class'? If not, can we usefully employ the term in analysing their society? Were the

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

This comprehensive survey of Islamic economic thought covers the development of ideas from the early Muslim jurists to the period of the Umayyads and Abbasids.