ALL ABOUT MONEYLESS ISLAM: The Qur’an & Institutions - Vol 2

The Quran does not merely critique the monetary economy. It establishes the complete alternative. Seven specific institutions - each with its own operational design, its own historical record, and its own Quranic mandate - constitute the Islamic provision framework that the Muslim community has largely forgotten, simplified beyond recognition, or replaced with inadequate substitutes. All About Moneyless Islam: The Institutions describes these seven institutions in the full depth they deserve - not as historical curiosities to be admired from a distance but as living institutional prescriptions whose implementation is more practically achievable today than at any previous point in Islamic history. Bayt al-Mal - the coordinating institutional heart whose five functions of collection, custody, distribution, development, and governance constitute the most comprehensive community provision architecture ever designed. Zakat - not the simplified 2.5% personal charity formula but the comprehensive, multi-category, institutionally collected and distributed provision mandate whose full implementation would generate between $500 billion and $1 trillion annually from the Muslim world alone. Waqf - the permanent endowment mechanism that makes provision sustainable across generations. Qard hasan, muakhat, hisbah, and sadaqah - each examined in its specific operational detail and its specific historical achievement. And then - the collapse. How these institutions, which at their height funded the most sophisticated hospitals, schools, and welfare systems the medieval world had ever seen, were captured, corrupted, colonially dismantled, and eventually forgotten. The institutions are described. Their collapse is documented. And the vision of their restoration begins.

Pagina's: 223, Paperback, Independently published