Shah Wali-Allah was a great sufi scholar born in the Indian Sub-Continent in the 1700s. He had a deep understanding of Quran, Hadith and Fiqh. This book is unique as it focussing on Shah Wali-Allahs thought from an economic perspective. Chapters discuss his economic ideas, his contribution to Tadbir al-Manzil (household management), money and interest, as well as public finance and socio-economic development.
Shah Wali-Allah had a deep understanding of Quran, Hadith and Fiqh. This book is unique as it focussing on Shah Wali-Allahs life as well as thought from an economic perspective.
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Introduction by Professor Khurshid Ahmad
Preface: 1 Overview of the Muslim Situation during Shah Wali-Allahs Time
1.1 The World and the Muslim situation in 12th century AH/18th century CE
1.2 Important Muslim regions
1.3 Mughals and the emerging Indian Sultanates
1.4 Khanates in Central Asia
1.5 Muslim states in Far East Asia
1.6 The economic front
1.7 Awakening among the Ottomans
1.8 India of Shah Wali-Allahs time
1.9 Medina becomes the foundation for revival and renovation
2 Shah Wali-Allah Dihlawi: Life and Times
2.1 Times and environment
2.2 Life
2.3 Areas of major contributions
2.4 Political role
2.5 His death and resting place
2.6 Impact of Shah Wali-Allah
2.7 Shah Wali-Allaha parallel to Ibn Taymiyyah
3 Intellectual and Academic Heritage
3.1 Shah Wali-Allahs syllabusan academic legacy
3.2 Sources of Shah Wali-Allahs thought
3.3 Was Shah Wali-Allah influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn
al-Qayyim?
3.4 Introducing Shah Wali-Allahs works
3.5 The impact of Shah Wali-Allahs ideasfactors that led to the fast and
vast spread of his works
4 Economic Ideas of Shah Wali-Allah Dihlawi
4.1 Economic ideas in Shah Wali-Allahs works
4.2 Study of applied economy
4.3 Theoretical economic ideas
4.4 Economic activities in an Islamic framework
4.5 Measures to avoid disputes in economic transactions
4.6 Some major contributions
5 Tadbr al-Manzil (Household Management)
5.1 Origins of tadbr al-manzil
5.2 Tadbr al-manzil in the Islamic tradition
5.3 Shah Wali-Allah on tadbr al-manzil
5.4 The subject matter of tadbr al-manzil
5.5 Other areas of tadbr al-manzil
5.6 The present discipline of economics and the Greek oikonomia
5.7 Market versus family
6 Shah Wali-Allah on Money and Interest
6.1 Money as seen by the Greek philosophers
6.2 Money in the early period of Islam
6.3 Difficulties of the barter system
6.4 Functions of money
6.5 Is it must to use gold and silver as money?
6.6 Interestan ill-use of money
6.7 Rib (interest proper)
6.8 Is the charging of interest prohibited from the poor only?
7 Public Finance
7.1 The subject of public financefirst to attract attention
7.2 Public revenue
7.3 Economics of zakah
7.4 Public expenditure
7.5 Public borrowing
7.6 Concern for the poor
8 Shah Wali-Allah on the Stages of Socio-Economic Development
8.1 Early Muslim scholars holistic approach to development
8.2 Development role of the state
8.3 Ibn Khalduns cyclical model of development
8.4 Shah Wali-Allahs theory of socio-economic development
8.5 Irtifqt: a natural process in human development
9 Conclusion: Comparison and Evaluation
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Dr. Abdul Azim Islahi is a professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, Jeddah. He has spent more than 30 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics, King Abdulaziz University. He obtained his PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1981
