Muhammad Hamidullah

His Pioneering Works on Islamic Economics

Abdul Azim Islahi

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English

Islamic Foundation
23 April 2025

Biography: religious & spiritual; Islam; Finance

Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah was a genius and prolific writer.

Anyone who has an interest in the Qur'ans translation, Hadith literatureInternational Islamic Law, Islamic Politics and archival heritage of Islamcannot ignore Dr. Hamidullah's contributions. He started writings on thesubject of Islamic Economics as early as the 1930s. He was a pioneer in Islamiceconomics and many firsts in this subject belong to him. For instance: interest freefinancial institutions in the modern period, advocacy of mutuality as thebasis for Islamic insurance, mutuality based Islamic finance and proposal forestablishment of international interest-free monetary fund. He also critiquescurrent systems and offers an alternative. His works are also a rich sourceof Islamic economic history. None of his contemporaries in the first half oftwentieth century had written on such a diverse aspect of the subject.

By: Abdul Azim Islahi
Imprint: Islamic Foundation
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9780860379140
ISBN 10: 0860379140
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 23 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is theformer Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University Islamic Economics.He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding thefrontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD fromAligarh Muslim University in 1981. He is considered an authority on thehistory of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is ""EconomicConcepts 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 researchpapers on the subject of Islamic Economics published in various national andinternational refereed journals. Prof. Islahi recently received the Istanbul-basedIslamic Economics Research Centre, IKAM's Islamic Economics ContributionAward for his Lifetime Achievement in the field of Islamic Economics.