Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab roots of capitalism /:

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 interre...

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Main Author: Heck, Gene W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2006.
Series:Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (2004) ; n.F., Bd. 18.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary: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 largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns. He then proceeds by demonstrating how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in "Dark Ag
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-375) and index.
ISBN:9783110202830
3110202832
1282195794
9781282195790
9786612195792
6612195797
ISSN:0585-6221 ;

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