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Leif Smith
303-778-0880
Explorers Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 9100
Denver, CO 80209
USA
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Islam and the Discovery of Freedom••• by Rose Wilder Lane. We have bought and distributed many copies of this book. -ls
‘Islam and the Discovery of Freedom••• by Rose Wilder Lane, with an Introduction and Commentary by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D.
‘… the Minaret of Freedom’s internationally known scholar on Islam and politics provides scriptural and historical documentation to a leading American libertarian writer’s brilliant insight into the role of the classical Islamic civilization in establishing liberty and human rights. This highly readable book is a "must-have" for anyone interested in what Islam teaches about political, social and economic order. Non-Muslims will be astonished at the contrast between the classical Islamic society and the image of the Muslim world today. Muslim parents will especially want their high school and college-aged children to read about their heritage and its implications for the modern world. This book squarely confronts the question of what made the classical Islamic society so dynamic and productive and the role it played in the rise of modern values in the West.’
To get your copy send $10 with a request for Islam and the Discovery of Freedom to: Minaret of Freedom Institute, 4323 Rosedale Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814
A specific reason we have invested in Minaret of Freedom is that they advocate ijtihâd, “independent scholarly research into policy issues of concern to Muslim countries and/or to Muslims in America; publication of scholarly and popular expositions of such research;
“Islam and the Medieval Progenitors of Austrian Economics” ••• Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
Abstract: In his posthumously published survey of the history of economics, Murray Rothbard traced the origins of free market thought as understood by the "Austrian" school back to the thirteenth century scholastics and sixteenth century Spanish economists. We find interesting parallels to these views in the contemporaneous and preceding Islamic tradition. We call for an extension of Rothbard's work to the Islamic contemporaries and predecessors of the Christian scholars that he studied.
“Islamic Views on Property Rights, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship: Application to Iraq” ••• speech to the International Property Rights Working Group, Washington, DC, by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, May 8, 2003
