Abdul Azim Islahi

Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is the former Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University - Islamic Economics. He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 1981. He is considered an authority on the history of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is "Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah" (Islamic Foundation,...See more

Abdul Azim Islahi is the editor and compiler of this book. He is the former Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University - Islamic Economics. He has spent more than 40 years in research, teaching, and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 1981. He is considered an authority on the history of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is "Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah" (Islamic Foundation, UK, 1988, republished in 1996). He has contributed four articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics (London, 2009). He has to his credit 20 books and more than 100 research papers on the subject of Islamic Economics published in various national and international refereed journals. Prof. Islahi recently received the Istanbul-based Islamic Economics Research Centre, IKAM's Islamic Economics Contribution Award for his Lifetime Achievement in the field of Islamic Economics. See less