Economic Doctrines of Islam: A Study in the Doctrines of Islam and Their Implications for Poverty, Employment and Economic Growth

Irfan Ul Haq

Jan 1996 · Academic Dissertations Series Book 3 · International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

About this ebook

 In this book Dr. Irfan Ul Haq examines the primary sources of Islam to

extract and formalize from them the Islamic economic doctrines as well

as the sociopolitical framework which guides the development of society.

In particular, emphasis is placed on the problems of poverty, unemployment

and lack of human resource development. What the study suggests

is that if Islam is properly studied through an idealistic-rational integrated

methodology and understood in its spirit and purposes, it reveals a core

set of permanent values and principles that form the fixed dimension of

Islam which then are applicable to virtually all human situations of society,

polity and economy in all space-and-time. It is this in-built dynamism

of Islam, demonstrated here with historical examples, that is utilized in

approaching and providing solutions to contemporary economic problems

and issues.

Written for students of social science and economics and students of

Islam. Economic Doctrines of Islam nevertheless addresses itself to all

such individuals who are interested in seeking divine guidance in the

realm of ethical social and economic development of human societies at

large.

About the author

Dr. Irfan Ul Haq was born in Bangladesh on 26 Dhu al Hijjah 1372 AH/ 6 September 1953 AC. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Karachi in 1974, as well as his M.A. in Economics in 1976. He then went on to receive another M.A. in Economics (1979) and his Ph.D. (1992) from the University of California at Davis. He was written, published, and participated in a number of conferences on various aspects of Islamic Economics. He has worked from 1982 to the present as the General Manager of family-owned trading business in Sacramento, California. He has also been appointed as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Phoenix from 1993 to present. (1995).