Muhammad Hamidullah

Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is the former Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University – Islamic Economics. He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 1981. He is considered an authority on the history of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is “Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah” (Islamic Foundation, UK, 1988, republished in 1996). He has contributed four articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics (London, 2009). He has to his credit 20 books and more than 100 research papers on the subject of Islamic Economics published in various national and international refereed journals. Prof. Islahi recently received the Istanbul-based Islamic Economics Research Centre, IKAM’s Islamic Economics Contribution Award for his Lifetime Achievement in the field of Islamic Economics.

• Acknowledgement Foreword Preface Preface To The Second Edition 1 Muhammad Hamidullah: Life and Works 2 An Introduction to Hamidullah's: Contributions to Islamic Economics 3 Zakah as The State Finance: A Critical Study of Hamidullah's Views 4 Islam's Solution of The Basic Economic Problems:The Position of Labour 5 Property (An International Islamic Perspective) 6 Islamic Insurance 7 Interest-Free Cooperative Lending Societies 8 The Political Significance of Zakah 9 Islam and Communism 10 Haidarabad's Contribution to Islamic EconomicThought and Practice 11 A Suggestion for an Interest-Free IslamicMonetary Fund 12 Budgeting and Taxation in The Time ofThe Holy Prophet 13 The Economic System of Islam 14 Revenue and Calendar 15 Financial Administration in The Muslim State 16 Book Review – 1 17 Book Review – 2 18 Book Review – 3 Bibliography Index