Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism / / Gene William Heck.
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 l...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients : Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam” ,
N.F. 18 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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