The Making of Islamic Economic Thought

Sami Al-Daghistani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: Economics of Happiness (2021) and translator to Slovenian of Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān (2016) and Ibn Baṭṭūta's Riḥla (2017).

• Introduction; 1. The Force of Revivalism and Islamization – Their Impact on Knowledge, Politics, and Islamic Economics; 2. The Present – Muslim Economists and the Constellation of Islamic Economics; 3. The Past Perfect – Sharī'a and the Intellectual History of Islamic Economic Teachings; 4. The Appraisal – Contemporary Islamic Economics and the Entrenchment of Modernity; 5. Futures – Pluralistic Epistemology of Islam's Moral Economics; Conclusion – Moral over Legal, Pluralistic over Monolithic.

'Sami Al-Daghistani breaks new ground in this remarkable book addressing the crucial role of moral cosmology in Islamic economic theory and practice. The breadth in this work is extraordinary, bringing many major pre-modern and modern Muslim scholars into conversation with western economic thought. A highly rewarding read for anyone interested in 'holistic,' conventional, or Islamic economics.' Waleed El-Ansary, Xavier University