Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab roots of capitalism:
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Main Author: Heck, Gene W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin [u.a.] de Gruyter 2006
Series:Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients N.F., 18
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Item Description:Gene W. Heck explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe's twelfth century commercial renaissance. Determining that Europe's medieval feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns, he demonstrates how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empoweredmedieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in "Dark Age economics"- in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 381 S.)
ISBN:3110192292
9783110192292
9783110202830
DOI:10.1515/9783110202830

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