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Thirty Years of Research on History of Islamic Economic Thought: Assessment and Future Directions ثلاثون عاماً من البحث في تاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي: تقييم واتجاهات مستقبلية

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  • Abdul Azim Islahi

    (Islamic Economics Institute King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

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The present paper examines and evaluates research experiences in the area of the history of Islamic economic thought during the last 30 years with the objective to see the pace of research and its coverage, both author-wise and idea-wise, and to determine the future research agenda in the light of the past progress and trends of the literature. The paper begins with a brief survey of the early literature on the history of Islamic economic thought, prior to 30-years, to provide a background. Then it studies and evaluates the research during the last thirty years, 1976-2006. It finds that hitherto the research in the history of Islamic economic thought has been language, region and period specific – Arabic, the Middle East and up to 9th/15th century respectively. More attention has been paid to write on economic thought of few personalities than others. The situation is still worse in case of idea-wise research. However, this literature has exerted some effects on scholars of the main stream economic thought and a few of them are trying to rehabilitate it in the main body of economic thought. At the end, the paper emphasizes on need for intensive and extensive research to include more personalities, ideas, periods, languages and regions and to write a systematic history of the subject. تهدف هذه الورقة إلى فحص وتقييم تجربة البحث في مجال الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي خلال الثلاثين سنة الماضية 1976 – 2006 من أجل الوقوف على وتيرة البحث وتغطيته على حد سواء، بالنظر إلى زاويتين: المصنف والفكرة. على ضوء التطور الذي حصل في هذه الكتابات واتجاهاتـها البحثية في الماضي نحاول تقديم برنامج عمل لأبحاث المستقبل. تبدأ الورقة بعملية مسح وجيزة للدراسات التي سبقت الثلاثين سنة –المدى الزمني لهذه الورقة- فيما يتعلق بتاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي لتقديم خلفية عن الموضوع، بعد ذلك تقوم الورقة بدراسة وتقييم البحث خلال الثلاثين سنة الأخيرة. لقد وجدت الدراسة أن تلك الأبحاث الخاصة بتاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي خلال الفترة المعنية تركزت في لغة واحدة ومنطقة محددة، وهي اللغة العربية، ومنطقة الشرق الأوسط في حدود القرن التاسع الهجري (الخامس عشر الميلادي). من جانب آخر لقد تم التركيز في تلك الكتابات على الأفكار الاقتصادية لبعض الشخصيات دون غيرها. والوضع أكثر سوءاً عندما يتعلق الأمر بجانب الأفكار المدروسة في تلك الأبحاث. لقد مارست هذه الكتابات بعض التأثير على عدد من علماء الفكر الاقتصادي السائد مما حدا بالبعض منهم إلى محاولة تأهيل هذه الدراسات لتكون ضمن المواد التدريسية الرئيسية لتاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي. في النهاية تؤكد الورقة على ضرورة القيام بأبحاث مكثفة ومعمقة من أجل إضافة شخصيات أخرى، وأفكار أخرى، وتغطية فترات ومناطق أخرى، بالإضافة إلى إعداد كتب ومواد دراسية في هذه المادة.

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  • Abdul Azim Islahi, 2008. "Thirty Years of Research on History of Islamic Economic Thought: Assessment and Future Directions ثلاثون عاماً من البحث في تاريخ الفكر الاقتصادي الإسلامي: تقييم واتجاهات مستقبلية," Papers and books based on the proceedings of the Conferences organized by the Islamic Economics Institute, KAAU. 57, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute..
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    1. Abdul Azim Islahi, 2021. "How to Ensure Research Quality in Islamic Economics? كيف نضمن جودة البحث في الاقتصاد الإسلامي؟," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 34(2), pages 147-156, July.
    2. Islahi, Abdul Azim, 2013. "First vs. second generation Islamic economists: Deviations and differences in thoughts," MPRA Paper 68353, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2015.
    3. Islahi, Abdul Azim, 2009. "Four generations of Islamic economists," MPRA Paper 29557, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2010.

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