Very interesting:
Islamic civilization extended the notion of guilds to the artisan as well — most notably to the warraqeen, or “those who work with paper.” Early Muslims were heavily engaged in translating and absorbing all ilm (”knowledge”) from all other known civilizations as far east as China. Critically analyzing, accepting, rejecting, improving and codifying knowledge […]

Lending money at interest - so that the borrower pays the lender more money than was originally lent - is forbidden in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, although details and interpretation on the subject seem to differ. Seeing as these are up there in terms of the “Big Three” religions in the Western world, it’s quite […]