Conceptions of Justice from Earliest History to Islam

Abbas Mirakhor is former Executive Director and Dean of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he taught at universities in Iran and in the US and was the First Holder of the INCEIF Chair in Islamic Finance at INCEIF in Malaysia.Hossein Askari is former Assistant Professor at Tufts University, Professor of Business and Middle East Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and was the Iran Professor of Business and International Affairs at The George Washington University, becoming Emeritus in 2019.

• 1. ​Chapter 1: Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2: Conception of Justice—Pre-Axial Age.- 3. Chapter 3: Conception of Justice—Pre-Axial India.- 4. Chapter 4: Conception of Justice—Pre-Axial Mesopotamia.- 5. Chapter 5: Conception of Justice—Pre-Axial—Noah, Abraham, Moses.- 6. Chapter 6: Conception of Justice—Axial Age India, China, Greece.- 7. Chapter 7: Conception of Justice—Post-Axial Age Christianity.- 8. Chapter 8: Islam and the Conception of Justice.- 9. Chapter 9: Earlier Muslim Scholars and Philosophers on Justice.- 10. Chapter 10: Conclusion