Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform - Softcover

Chapra, M. Umer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860374610 ISBN 13: 9780860374619

Publisher: The Islamic Foundation, 2010

Synopsis

"[This is] a subject of such relevance and importance that one wonders why nobody else dealt with it in book form before."—Dr. Wilfried Hofmann

Muslim civilization has experienced a decline during the last five centuries after previously having undergone a long period of prosperity and comprehensive development. This raises a number of questions such as what factors enable Muslims to become successful during the earlier centuries of Islam and what led them to their present weak position. Is Islam responsible for this decline or are there some other factors which come into play? M. Umer Chapra provides an authoritative diagnosis and prescription to reverse this decline.

M. Umer Chapra is a research advisor at the Islamic Research and Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, and author of The Future of Economics and Islam and the Economic Challenge.

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Muslim Civilization: the Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform What factors enabled Muslims to become successful during the earlier centuries of Islam and what lead them to their present weak position? Is it Islam which is responsible for this decline or are there some other factors which come into play? This study tries to answer these questions and also discusses what could help reverse the cycle. Full description

Review:

"Dr Chapra has chosen a subject of such relevance and importance respectively that one wonders why nobody else dealt with it in book form before. (He) asks questions that most Muslims ask, while shying away from answering them." Dr. Wilfried Hofmann "This humane book is very well conceived and makes real progress towards achieving the laudable goals it advocates....each chapter plays an effective role in explaining the decline and, therefore, conceiving of ways to achieve reform." Prof. Robert Whaples

About this edition

• Publisher: The Islamic Foundation
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0860374610
• ISBN 13: 9780860374619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224