Book Review: The Economic Functions of the Early Islamic State, by: S.M. Hasanuzzaman, Reviewed by: Noor M. Ghifari مراجعة علمية لكتاب: وظائف الاقتصاد للدولة الإسلامية القديمة - تأليف: سيد محمد حسن الزمان - مراجعة: نور محمد غفاري

This book, based on the author's doctoral thesis submitted to the Edinburgh University, has been divided into three parts. The first part contains four chapters and deals with basic considerations such as ‘economic teachings of the Qur'an, economic teachings of the Hadith, the foundations of the economic life,’ and ‘ownership and controls’. The second part consists of nine chapters and treats the institution of Bayt al-Mal (the exchequer) in the light of different issues such as ‘the concept and the early history of Bayt al-Mal, Ghanima and Khums (booty and fifth), Zakat (the poor due), Jizya and Kharaj (poll-tax and land-tax), ‘ushur, debts, donations; Centre-pro-vince relationship; expenditures of the Islamic state and its economic policy, and ‘a note on coinage’. Part three comprises one chapter and offers views on price and cost of living, salaries and wages, affluence and standard of living, and population. There are two appendices, a preface and a list of abbreviations in the beginning and a bibliography and an index at the end of the book.