Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9783110192292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 395 str.

Gene W. Heck

Opis

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 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.

Recenzje

"[...] 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

O autorze

Gene W. Heck, Dallas, Texas, USA.