The Medieval Debate on Money and Interest
A Comparative Perspective on Ethics and Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 April 2026
- ISBN 9780367704902
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book examines the medieval debate on the role of money and credit in the Islamic and Western Christian worlds.
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This book examines the medieval debate on the role of money and credit in the Islamic and Western Christian worlds.
Starting from Aristotle's vision of the ethical and egalitarian use of wealth, fundamental to both Islamic and Christian thinkers, it highlights how the two visions of money and credit share a strong ethical-religious foundation.However, thinking on monetary and credit matters in the Western Christian and Islamic worlds has developed differently, partly due to the different evolution of the two economic systems. In Islamic economic thought, particular attention has been paid to the prohibition of paying interest on loans, the main basis for which lies in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. This has had interesting repercussions both on the development of the socio-economic system and on theoretical thinking. In the Western Christian world, too, this prohibition was based on ethical and religious grounds. Taking an Aristotelian perspective, the writings of the Thomists and the Franciscan and Augustinian schools reiterated the need for an ethical assessment of credit and interest. This resulted in a significant contribution to the process of secularisation of economic science and valuable theoretical support for important institutional developments.
This book will be of great interest to readers of Islamic and Christian ethics, the history of money and, more generally, the history of economic thought.
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Introduction 1. The Philosophical Foundation of Medieval Reflection on Money and Credit 2. Money and Credit in Medieval Islamic Thought 3. The Christian West faced with the evolution of the monetary system 4. Food for thought from a comparison Conclusion
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