ISLAM and MONEY

What the Qur'an Says About Money and the Monetary System

von Glenn Chin

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What does the Qur'an actually say about money - not what fourteen centuries of practice assumed, but what the text itself states?Islam and Money begins with a simple discipline: mention is not prescription, regulation is not prescription, and historical use is not a permanent divine requirement. Applying that standard verse by verse - to the dinars of Surah Al Imran, the silver of the sleepers in the cave, the storehouses of Yusuf, the long debt verse of Al-Baqarah, and the eight named recipients of zakat - this book builds an inventory of everything the Qur'an says about coins, trade, debt, and riba, and asks a question most books on Islamic finance never pause to ask: does any of it actually require a monetary system at all?The investigation moves from the Hijaz's foreign coins to the invention of coinage, from medieval credit instruments to central banking, before turning to how money actually works today - commercial bank deposit creation, the architecture of global debt, and what Islamic finance's own most senior scholars have said about how far its instruments really depart from conventional interest. It examines money as a gatekeeper to real resources, the difference between genuine and engineered scarcity, and what current AI and automation capability changes about a question economists once considered settled: whether a large, complex society can coordinate provision without price.The book does not assume its conclusion. It states the strongest case for the conventional position at every turn, and only in its final chapters asks what follows if the Qur'an's own principles - justice, the prohibition of exploitation, the guaranteed right of the deprived - are followed further than convention has taken them.Written for readers with no prior background in Islamic law or economics, with every Arabic and technical term explained in plain English as it appears, Islam and Money is a work of independent inquiry - not a fatwa, and not a foregone conclusion.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176858518
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published