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Drawing upon received sources of maqasid of Shariah, the authors present an independent academic work which emphasizes the common conceptual grounds of labor market behavior shared by the maqasid of Shariah approach as well as the conventional approach to economics. It also adopts standard textbook tools to explain industrial relations.
List of contents
1 Introduction
Toseef Azid and Necmettin Kizilkaya2 The Labour Market in an Islamic Setting:Review and Prospects
Toseef Azid3 Division of Labour and its Theoretical FoundationsComparing Ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith
Yasien Mohamed4 A critical examination of the concept of 'human capital': Perspective of Islamic economic jurisprudence
Zeyneb Hafsa Orhan Aström5 The Conceptions of Labor, Workers' Rights and Migration in Islam
Latife Reda6 The Test of Islamic Sensibility With Poverty: The State And Women Workers in The Last Period of Ottoman Empire
Kadir Yildrim7 Islamic Ethics and Migrant Labor in Qatar
Ray Jureidini8 Inequality, Labor Market and Economic Growth in the MENA Region: Is Governance the Missing Ingredient to Alleviate the Situation?
Matallah Siham, Bounoua Chaiband Benbouziane Mohamed9 A Progressive Universal Islamic Perspective on Free Mobility of Labor
Muhammad Iqbal Anjum10 A Comparative Study of Views and Role of Labor in Marxian, Mainstream and Islamic Economics
Salman Ahmed Shaikh
About the author
Associate Professor Necmettin Kizilkaya is an Associate Professor of Islamic Law, Istanbul University, Turkey. He has also worked as a visiting fellow at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies and as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology. He has written several books and had a number of papers published in refereed journals in the fields of Islamic economics and Islamic law.
Professor Toseef Azid has 35 years' experience in teaching at university level in different parts of the world (USA, UK, Brunei, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) and research experience in forecasting models, development economics and Islamic economics. Currently he is working as Professor of Islamic Economics and Finance at College of Business, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. He has published one book and more than 50 articles in refereed international journals as well as contributing numerous conference papers.
Summary
Drawing upon received sources of maqasid of Shariah, the authors present an independent academic work which emphasizes the common conceptual grounds of labor market behavior shared by the maqasid of Shariah approach as well as the conventional approach to economics. It also adopts standard textbook tools to explain industrial relations.
