Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism (Hardcover)

Presented in six principal analytic chapters with supporting appendices, this book explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe's twelfth century commercial renaissance. Employing the classic analytic techniques of economics, Gene Heck determines that medieval Europe's feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns. He then proceeds by demonstrating how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in "Dark Age economics" in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism. While treatises such as Maxime Rodinson's excellent book, Islam and Capitalism, document the capitalistic nature of the Islamic economic system, in applying modern economic method to medieval orientalist historiography, this work is unique in capturing both the evolution and the impact of the system's role in forging medieval history.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Gene William Heck
Dimensions:	234 x 161 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	395
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-019229-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	3-11-019229-2
Barcode:	9783110192292

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