Book Review: Ibn Taymiyah: Public Duties In Islam Translated from Arabic: Muhtar Holland (Tr), Reviewed by مراجعة علمية لكتاب: ابن تيمية: الواجبات العامة في الإسلام - المترجمة من اللغة العربية: مهتر هولاند - مراجعة: عبدالعظيم إصلاحي

The publication of the English translation of al-Hisba fi'l Islam is a useful addition to Islamic economic literature. Notwithstanding a few small errors, noted below, the translation reads well and the notes are excellent. This book is a good manual and can justifiably be claimed to be a treatise on Islamic sociology, political science and economics. It has a rich introduction by the editor, Professor Khurshid Ahmad and a useful paper titled: "al-Hisba and Islamic Economy" by M. Akram Khan. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is entitled: "Managing an Islamic Economy and Society", which discusses different economic issues. It consists of five chapters. The second part entitled: "Towards a Just Society", also consists of five chapters. The importance of the book for economists lies in the fact that "Ibn Taymiyyah wrote in an age when economics as a science was not born. But one is astonished at his perception of market mechanism and the forces of demand and supply and problems of market imperfections and their consequences for the consumers and producers. He is concerned with the questions of monopoly, hoarding and price manipulations and is eager to establish the principle of just price and just wages. his primary concern is with the establishment of a just economic order". --