مراجعة علمية لكتاب : تحدي الرأسمالية (الإسلام والاقتصاد الأخلاقي)‎

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This paper presents a review of Charles Tripp’s book (Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism).

Charles Tripp a political science professor at the department of international and political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London university.

The Book studies engagement of Muslim intellectuals with capitalism since the nineteenth century (The fall of the Ottoman Empire) and presents the different trends of thoughts and engagements during and after colonial rule towards it that has changed all aspects of Muslim life.

The author detected much similarity with intellectual controversies that happened in the west at the early days of capitalism.

He also appraised and critically studied the intellectual and practical institutional contributions of Islamic Economics.

This Book review intended to analyze, examine, and discuss Tripp’s critique of Islamic Economics and moral economy in general.

The paper concludes that many of the neoclassical school and modernist criticisms to Islamic Economics are contradictory, lack consistency with its methodology, develops many judgements and conclusions based upon false understanding of Shariah Laws, sometimes accusing Islamic economics with failures that are actual directly or indirectly related to conventional economics, also portraying Islamic Shariah of being Idealistic in a subjective manner, and doubts the originality of Islamic rulings falsely based on non-Islamic epistemological basis.

The Islamic economic school of thought could benefit from this review realizing the need for greater consideration of raising public knowledge about true prophetic asceticism, Fiqh Mu’amalat Jurisprudence of financial transactions, establishing human behavioral theories directly from Quran and Sunnah texts, and reviewing classical theoretical economic literature islamically.