Dr Abdul Azim Islahi is Professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has spent more than 35 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics. His main contribution is filling the research gap in the history of Islamic economic thought.

"The present book is an attempt to analyse the writing of some Arab scholars on economics from the Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria mainly. ... The book under review is a very good contribution to Islamic economics as it extends textual interpretation to the formulation of a coherent view of how to achieve economic development and how these great personalities, in their own different ways, attended to the crisis of the Arab world in the 19th century." (Faizal Ahmad Manjoo, The Muslim World, Vol. 37 (1), 2016)

• Foreword Preface and Acknowledgement 1. Introduction 2. The Nineteenth Century Arab World: An Overview 3. Thinking on Economic Issues in a Traditional Way: al-Shawkani and Ibn Abidin 4. The Economic Thought of Azharite Scholars Rifa'ah al-Tahtawa and Muhammad Abduh 5. The Economic Ideas of Two Tunisian Statesmen: Khayr Al-Din al-Tunisi and Bayram al-Khamis 6. The Economic Thinking of Arab Literati: Mubarak, al-Nadim, and al-Kawakibi 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index