Book Review: Prophecy, Piety, and Profits: A Conceptual and Comparative History of Islamic Economic Thought

Abstract

The author aims to explore and provide an Islamic response to the key concepts of economics such as scarcity, wealth, poverty and rationality by utilizing revelation and scripture (i.e. prophecy) as a theoretical dimension of religion and piety as the practical articulation of it. Furthermore, by redefining the concept of profit from these theoretical and practical perspectives, the book calls us to “reconsider what is truly profitable, what is of real value and worthy of our sacrifice” (p. vii). To achieve the aim of the book, the author does not limit himself only to the Islamic sources but also critically explores the concepts and provides a comparative analy-sis by referring to the Greek, Christian and Classical economic thought besides neoclassical and Islamic positions.

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