The Myth of Bryson and Economic Thought in Islam أسطورة بريسون والفكر الاقتصادي في الإسلام

Abdul Azim Islahi

Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, 2008, vol. 21, issue 1, 65-70

Abstract: The inspiration for the present note comes primarily from a statement in the old edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. In its volume four on page number 595, Heffening (1934) states that to Helmut Ritter ‘the whole economic literature of Islam can be traced to economics of Neo-pythagorean Bryson’ (emphasis added). In 1917 the German writer Ritter edited and translated Abu Ja`far al-Dimashqi’s treatise Kitab al-Isharah ila Mahasin al-Tijarah. In his introduction of the book he noted the said remark. It is this unqualified statement that we dispute here. Later in 1928 another German author Plessner tried to show Bryson’s influence on Islamic economic thought by making a review of all the Arab-Muslim literary works that concerned themselves even remotely with Bryson’s text (Heffening 1934, Vol.4, p. 595). His assertion of Bryson’s influence was later taken up by many other writers. --

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.4197/islec.21-1.4

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