What is Islamic Economics

Attached book contains lot of abstracts which lies in following categories

1. Islamic Economics - Its Scope and Methodology tries to identify some methodological issues involved in the development of the science. These papers also provide some interesting insights as regards limits and scope of Islamic economics.

2. The Socia-Economic Setting of Islamic Economics includes studies that examine social, political, economic, institutional framework under which Islamic economics can be studied.

3. Behaviour of the Consumer and the Firm, Allocation and Welfare emphasizes on the price theory and allocation of resources. It also includes a number of papers which provide interesting insights as regards various micro economic Issues.

4. Money, Banking and Monetary Policy is perhaps the most well-developed under the Centre’s research programme. It represents a number of papers which examine as to how the Islamic banks can operate without interest. This section also indicates a number of areas of further research in

monetary economics. This section also includes some evaluation of performance of Islamic banks at an operational level.

5. The Fiscal Economics of Islam comprises articles on fiscal policy, taxation policy, with special reference to Zakah. It also includes some papers dealing with the empirical analysis of Zakah.

6. The Development and Distribution in Islam is concerned mainly with the concept of economic development, its strategy and distributive justice. It also includes studies that examine the causes of material poverty in Muslim countries and offer number of interesting solutions

to the problems of material misery.

7. History and Survey areas includes some papers which give a fairly good idea of contemporary Muslim Economic Thinking. It also includes paper on the economic thought of non-contemporary writers.

Different Outlines of Islamic Economics are available at this link