caa a22 4500 386369860 CHVBK 20180307111953.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002074380003227X doi S002074380003227X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002074380003227X Kuran Timur Department of Economics University of Southern California On the Notion of Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought [Elektronische Daten] [Timur Kuran] In the massive contemporary literature that has come to be known as "Islamic economics,”1 the claim is repeatedly made that an Islamic economic system would achieve a greater degree of economic justice than existing capitalist and socialist systems. An Islamic system, it is said, would be free, on the one hand, of the exploitation and severe inequalities that characterize capitalism, and on the other, of the class struggles and intolerable restrictions that are the hallmarks of socialism.2 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-05), 171-191 0020-7438 21:2<171 1989 21 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380003227X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380003227X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kuran Timur Department of Economics University of Southern California NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-05), 171-191 0020-7438 21:2<171 1989 21 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge