Islam dunyasinda ve Bati'da is ortakliklari tarihi / Murat Cizakca ; ceviri Sehnaz Layikel. [Comparative evolution of business partnerships. Turkish]

This monograph deals with the entrepreneurs, the partnerships they formed and how these partnerships evolved through a time span of about fourteen centuries, that is, from the birth of Islam to the present. The first part of the book examines_x000D_ the evolution of medieval partnership forms in Europe and finally in the United States, while in the second part the much_x000D_ less known Islamic evolution is studied. The study of the Islamic evolution is based on extensive original research_x000D_ conducted in the Ottoman archives. Comparative economic and business historians of these two great civilizations will_x000D_ find this book highly important, while modern Islamic bankers and economists interested in the actual functioning of an_x000D_ Islamic economy will find this volume indispensable reading, for here they have a unique chance to observe an Islamic_x000D_ economy and business operating within an historical framework. _x000D_ _x000D_