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  • Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

    Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the 'great gap' in economic history. Unfortunately, this 'gap' is well embedded in most relevant ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Lost Life Recovered: an Odyssey

    This is the story of an individual, who overcomes almost insurmountable odds, recovers and succeeds. His father, having four daughters, won the demographic lottery: the son was born. When just under 4 years old, his father was murdered by a man who then becomes his step-father. That’s when the orphaned son’s survival struggles—his odyssey—begin. Traumatized and scared, he suffered regular abuse, ... Read more

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  • The West and the Rest

    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

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    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Read more

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  • The Long Divergence

    How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East

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    How religious barriers stalled capitalism in the Middle EastIn the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind—in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead. What caused this long divergence? And why ... Read more

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  • Rulers, Religion, and Riches

    Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

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    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
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  • Secularism Confronts Islam

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    The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible ... Read more

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  • Islam Through Western Eyes

    From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism

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  • Islam in Liberalism

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    Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

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