TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heck,Gene W.
TI  - Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab roots of capitalism
T2  - Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients,
SN  - 9783110202830
AV  - HF3868 .H43 2006eb
U1  - 330.12/2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - W. de Gruyter
KW  - Commerce
KW  - History
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Free Enterprise
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Medieval
KW  - Wirtschaftstheorie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kapitalisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Pays musulmans
KW  - Europa (geografie)
KW  - Arabische wereld
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-375) and index; Frontmatter ; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Medieval Christian Europe in Stasis; Chapter 2 The Muslims' Medieval "Trade Explosion"; Chapter 3 Islamic "Free Market" Doctrine Pragmatically Applied; Chapter 4 The Fruition of "Commercial Capitalism" in Fātimid Egypt; Chapter 5 Imperatives of Trade and the Transformation of Europe; Chapter 6 Medieval Europe's Transformation: "The Triumph Of Ideas"; Backmatter; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 Ag
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