TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heck,Gene William
TI  - Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism
T2  - Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients : Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam” ,
SN  - 9783110192292
AV  - HF3868 .H43 2006eb
U1  - 330.12/2 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Commerce
KW  - History
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Europa
KW  - Mittelalter
KW  - HISTORY / Civilization
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Business Economics
KW  - Islam/ Economics
KW  - Islamic History
KW  - Medieval Global Trade
KW  - Renaissance/ Europe
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: The Christian Decline --; Chapter 1 Medieval Christian Europe in --; Stasis --; Part II: The Islamic Ascendency --; 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 --; Part III: Islam and the Christian Revival --; Chapter 5 Imperatives of Trade and the --; Transformation of Europe --; Chapter 6 Medieval Europe´s Transformation: “The --; Triumph Of Ideas” --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
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 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110202830
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110202830
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110202830/original
ER  -