A unique book introducing a pivotal Islamic philosophers thoughts to the concept of Islamic economics Islamic economics is a rapidly expanding field, with a growing presence in the West, along with its established place in majority Muslim countries such as Pakistan, the Gulf states, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia Offers Ibn Taymiyyah's views on the role of the state in the economy, on public finance, money, interest, prices, partnership and profit-sharing and a host of other economic issues is repatriated and analyzed in their historical context Offefs a comparison of Ibn Taimiyah's economic ideas with those of some medieval scholars in Europe, and a study of his influence on Islamic thinkers in later distinctive features of the work.