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Acknowledgements

I wish to express my sincere and deep gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi, Professor of Economics, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, for expert guidance, Constant encouragement, and for his kindness and generosity.

I am also grateful to Dr. Fazlur Rahman Faridi, Chairman of Socio-Technical Studies, for his comments on some of the chapters. I benefited likewise from the comments of Dr. Sabahuddin Zaim, Professor of Economics, University of Istanbul, and from those of Dr. Muhammad Anas Zarqa of the Centre for Research in Islamic Economics, Jeddah.

My thanks are due to Dr. S. Fareed Ahmad, my senior colleague, Dr. Hamidullah of the English Department, AMU, Aligarh, and Dr. Syed Z. Abidin, Editor, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Through their careful reading of the manuscript – in whole or in part – they contributed to its literary improvement, objectivity of viewpoint and precision and quality of presentation (such faults as remain are my own).

My thanks are also due to the Director and research staff of the Centre for Research in Islamic Economics, King Abdul Aziz University, who have, by accepting various research projects, enabled me to continue my research on Ibn Taimīyah and other Muslim thinkers. I want to thank also all my colleagues in general and those from whom I received encouragement and co-operation at different stages of this work.

The Librarian and staff of Maulana Azad Library, the West Asian Studies Library of the Aligarh Muslim University, where I commenced this work; the Librarian and the staff of the King Abdul Aziz University Library, where I completed this work; the London University Library, Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the British Museum Library, London, where I obtained some valuable references – all deserve my sincere appreciation and gratitude.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, ex-President King Abdul Aziz University, and now the Secretary General of the Muslim World League, who took a keen personal interest in my research and arranged for my stay in the Kingdom with a view to providing me access to scholars and books available here. I am also grateful to Dr. Muhammad M. O. Jamjoom, formerly the Dean, College of Engineering, and now the Secretary General, King Abdul Aziz University, whose patronage enabled me to devote myself to research along with teaching in the Department of Socio-Technical Studies.

Finally, I am grateful to the Islamic Foundation for publishing this work.

One who is not grateful to human beings,

will not be grateful to Allah.