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Ubóstwo w perspektywie islamu – wybrane zagadnienia
Poverty in the perspective of Islam – selected problems

Author(s): Jacek Adamek
Subject(s): Economy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: poverty; islam

Summary/Abstract: Socio-economic multidimensionality of poverty is manifested e.g. in the diversification of the description and interpretation of its content and characteristics. The purpose of the article is to present Muslim approach to the essence of poverty as one of the ways for this phenomenon perception. The content of the article, based on the subject literature review and the author’s own studies, covering the selected economic problems of Islam, is focused on two issues, i.e. the characteristics of approaches functioning in the scientific space, adequate for the interpretation of poverty and the presentation of this status perception from a religious perspective, and the socio-economic doctrine of Islam. The statement that the historical continuity and the general prevalence of poverty cannot be accepted as the decisive factors of its perception and interpretation universality has become the primary thesis of the study.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 437
  • Page Range: 11-21
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish