Islam and Capitalism
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Islam and Capitalismis a learned, engaging rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called "Islam," typically characterized as instinctively hostile to capitalism. Maxime Rodinson looks at the facts, analyzing economic texts with his customary common sense, to show that Muslims never had any problem making money.
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Maxime Rodinsonwas a French Marxist historian, sociologist, and a professor at the renowned Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
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