| Notes on contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Scholastic economics and Arab scholars: the "Great Gap" thesis reconsidered | 6 |
| 2 | Economic thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD) | 23 |
| 3 | Economic thought and religious thought: a comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi | 45 |
| 4 | A rejoinder to "Economic thought and religious thought | 49 |
| 5 | Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's economics | 53 |
| 6 | History of economic thought: the Schumpeterian "Great Gap", the "lost" Arab-Islamic legacy and the literature gap | 72 |
| 7 | Understanding the market mechanism before Adam Smith: economic thought in medieval Islam | 88 |
| 8 | Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" thesis: economic thought in medieval Iran (Persia) | 108 |
| 9 | Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Qayyim's economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD) | 127 |
| 10 | Medieval Islamic socio-economic thought: links with Greek and Latin-European scholarship | 142 |
| 11 | Post-Greek/pre-Renaissance economic thought: contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the "Great Gap" centuries | 159 |
| 12 | The economic thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: some comparative parallels and links | 184 |
| 13 | Early medieval Islamic economic thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) economics of public finance | 209 |
| 14 | Public-sector economics in medieval economic thought: contributions of selected Arab-Islamic scholars | 228 |
| 15 | Medieval social thought European Renaissance: the influence of selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics | 245 |
| Bibliography | 261 |
| Index | 276 |