ABSTRACT
This paper explores the economic thought of a medieval Arab-Islamic Scholastic, Shams al Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abi Bakr Al-Zar’i, known as Ibn Al-Qayyim al Jawziyyah (AH691-751/1292-1350AD), hereafter called Ibn Qayyim. As a theologian and interpreter of Islamic scriptures, he was among the leading jurists of the Hanbali school-last of the four streams within Islamic shariah (or Islamic jurisprudence) that emerged between the eighth and fourteenth centuries (the other three, chronologically, being Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi-each named after its founder; see Levy, 166-91).
