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An online publication of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Poverty in Islam

The Islamic Theology of Poverty between Socialism and Capitalism

By Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour  //  December 5, 2021January 3, 2022

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that it was the Protestant religious ethic, more particularly Calvinism, that acted as a precursor to modern Capitalist economic development, as it saw…

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