Labor in an Islamic Setting : Theory and Practice

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The labor market in an Islamic setting: review and prospects -- 3 The division of labor and its theoretical foundations: comparing Ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith -- 4 A critical examination of the concept of "human capital": the perspective of Islamic economic jurisprudence -- 5 The concepts of labor, workers' rights, and migration in Islam -- 6 The test of Islamic sensibility with poverty: the state and women workers in the last period of the Ottoman Empire -- 7 Islamic ethics and migrant labor in Qatar -- 8 Inequality, the labor market, and economic growth in the ΜΕΝΑ region: is governance the missing ingredient to alleviate the situation? -- 9 A progressive universal Islamic perspective on the free mobility of labor -- 10 A comparative study of views and the role of labor in Marxian, mainstream, and Islamic economics -- Index.