Economic Doctrines of Islam

 In this book Dr. Irfan Ul Haq examines the primary sources of Islam to

extract and formalize from them the Islamic economic doctrines as well

as the sociopolitical framework which guides the development of society.

In particular, emphasis is placed on the problems of poverty, unemployment

and lack of human resource development. What the study suggests

is that if Islam is properly studied through an idealistic-rational integrated

methodology and understood in its spirit and purposes, it reveals a core

set of permanent values and principles that form the fixed dimension of

Islam which then are applicable to virtually all human situations of society,

polity and economy in all space-and-time. It is this in-built dynamism

of Islam, demonstrated here with historical examples, that is utilized in

approaching and providing solutions to contemporary economic problems

and issues.

Written for students of social science and economics and students of

Islam. Economic Doctrines of Islam nevertheless addresses itself to all

such individuals who are interested in seeking divine guidance in the

realm of ethical social and economic development of human societies at

large.