The Restoration of Wealth: Introducing Ibn Abī al-Dunyā’s Iṣlāḥ al-Māl

Abstract

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā’s work, Iṣlāḥ al-Māl (Restoration of Wealth), pro- vides a wealth of insight into various attitudes towards wealth and property prevalent among Muslims in the first few centuries of the establishment of Islam as a world religion and civilization. This ar- ticle introduces the recently published English translation of the work and maps out the general contours of those attitudes.