Islam and Economics: Shah Wali-Allah's Approach

About the author

Abdul Azim Islahi: Dr. Abdul Azim Islahi is a professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, with more than four decades of research, teaching, and expanding the frontiers of Islamic economics. He obtained his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1981. He served as Chief Editor of the Journal of King Abdulaziz University - Islamic Economics and is widely regarded as an authority on the history of Islamic economic thought. His most outstanding work is Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah (Islamic Foundation, UK, 1988; republished 1996). He has contributed four articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics (London, 2009) and authored approximately 20 books and more than 100 research papers published in national and international refereed journals. He was awarded the Istanbul-based Islamic Economics Research Centre (IKAM) Islamic Economics Contribution Award for lifetime achievement in the field. His authored titles at MeccaBooks include Islam and Economics: Shah Wali-Allah's Approach and Muhammad Hamidullah: His Pioneering Works on Islamic Economics.