Shah Wali-Allah Dihlawi and his Economic Thought

Dr. Abdul Azim Islahi is a professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, Jeddah. He has spent more than 30 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics, King Abdulaziz University. He obtained his PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1981

• Introduction by Professor Khurshid AhmadPreface: 1 Overview of the Muslim Situation during Shah Wali-Allah’s Time1.1 The World and the Muslim situation in 12th century AH/18th century CE1.2 Important Muslim regions1.3 Mughals and the emerging Indian Sultanates1.4 Khanates in Central Asia1.5 Muslim states in Far East Asia1.6 The economic front1.7 Awakening among the Ottomans1.8 India of Shah Wali-Allah’s time1.9 Medina becomes the foundation for revival and renovation2 Shah Wali-Allah Dihlawi: Life and Times2.1 Times and environment2.2 Life2.3 Areas of major contributions2.4 Political role2.5 His death and resting place2.6 Impact of Shah Wali-Allah2.7 Shah Wali-Allah—a parallel to Ibn Taymiyyah3 Intellectual and Academic Heritage3.1 Shah Wali-Allah’s syllabus—an academic legacy3.2 Sources of Shah Wali-Allah’s thought3.3 Was Shah Wali-Allah influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim?3.4 Introducing Shah Wali-Allah’s works3.5 The impact of Shah Wali-Allah’s ideas—factors that led to the fast and vast spread of his works4 Economic Ideas of Shah Wali-Allah Dihlawi4.1 Economic ideas in Shah Wali-Allah’s works4.2 Study of applied economy4.3 Theoretical economic ideas4.4 Economic activities in an Islamic framework4.5 Measures to avoid disputes in economic transactions4.6 Some major contributions5 Tadbīr al-Manzil (Household Management)5.1 Origins of tadbīr al-manzil5.2 Tadbīr al-manzil in the Islamic tradition5.3 Shah Wali-Allah on tadbīr al-manzil5.4 The subject matter of tadbīr al-manzil5.5 Other areas of tadbīr al-manzil5.6 The present discipline of economics and the Greek oikonomia5.7 Market versus ‘family’6 Shah Wali-Allah on Money and Interest6.1 Money as seen by the Greek philosophers6.2 Money in the early period of Islam6.3 Difficulties of the barter system6.4 Functions of money6.5 Is it must to use gold and silver as money?6.6 Interest—an ill-use of money6.7 Ribā (interest proper)6.8 Is the charging of interest prohibited from the poor only?7 Public Finance7.1 The subject of public finance—first to attract attention7.2 Public revenue7.3 Economics of zakah7.4 Public expenditure7.5 Public borrowing7.6 Concern for the poor8 Shah Wali-Allah on the Stages of Socio-Economic Development8.1 Early Muslim scholars’ holistic approach to development8.2 Development role of the state8.3 Ibn Khaldun’s cyclical model of development8.4 Shah Wali-Allah’s theory of socio-economic development8.5 Irtifāqāt: a natural process in human development9 Conclusion: Comparison and EvaluationBibliographyArabic ReferencesOther LanguagesIndexesNamesSubjects