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Islam and capitalism

By Maxime Rodinson

Book information

Publisher
Pantheon Books
Year
1974
ISBN
0394467191, 9780394467191
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (4984334 bytes)
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Pages
308\329
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-05-30 17:15:36
Economic Conditions Economics Business Money

Description

Islam and Capitalism is a learned, engaging rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called “Islam,” typically characterized as instinctively hostile to capitalism. Maxime Rodinson looks at the facts, analyzing economic texts with his customary common sense, to show that Muslims never had any problem making money. Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist, and a professor at the renowned École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.

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