Labor in an Islamic Setting

Associate Professor Necmettin Kizilkaya is an Associate Professor of Islamic Law, Istanbul University, Turkey. He has also worked as a visiting fellow at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies and as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology. He has written several books and had a number of papers published in refereed journals in the fields of Islamic economics and Islamic law.Professor Toseef Azid has 35 years’ experience in teaching at university level in different parts of the world (USA, UK, Brunei, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) and research experience in forecasting models, development economics and Islamic economics. Currently he is working as Professor of Islamic Economics and Finance at College of Business, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. He has published one book and more than 50 articles in refereed international journals as well as contributing numerous conference papers.

• 1 IntroductionToseef Azid and Necmettin Kizilkaya2 The Labour Market in an Islamic Setting:Review and ProspectsToseef Azid3 Division of Labour and its Theoretical FoundationsComparing Ibn Khaldun and Adam SmithYasien Mohamed4 A critical examination of the concept of ‘human capital’: Perspective of Islamic economic jurisprudenceZeyneb Hafsa Orhan Aström5 The Conceptions of Labor, Workers’ Rights and Migration in IslamLatife Reda6 The Test of Islamic Sensibility With Poverty: The State And Women Workers in The Last Period of Ottoman EmpireKadir Yildrim7 Islamic Ethics and Migrant Labor in QatarRay Jureidini8 Inequality, Labor Market and Economic Growth in the MENA Region: Is Governance the Missing Ingredient to Alleviate the Situation?Matallah Siham, Bounoua Chaiband Benbouziane Mohamed9 A Progressive Universal Islamic Perspective on Free Mobility of LaborMuhammad Iqbal Anjum10 A Comparative Study of Views and Role of Labor in Marxian, Mainstream and Islamic EconomicsSalman Ahmed Shaikh

"The dearth of works on labour theory from an Islamic economics perspective is surely filled by the publication of this book. The book is indeed an excellent initial step in the field of Islamic economics...The editors deserve appreciation for producing this specialised volume." - The Muslim World Book Review