Introduction to Islamic Economic Thought

Section: Political Books

Number of pages: 296 pages

Ferrier's book focuses on one aspect of this science, which is the history of economic thought in general, which is concerned with studying economic ideas throughout human existence, and Islamic economic thought in particular. Joseph Schumpeter had addressed the history of ideas before him in his book The History of Economic Analysis, in which he pointed to a large gap in economic thinking between the time of Greek civilization and the Middle Ages in which Saint Thomas Aquinas lived, a period that includes the Islamic era.