La escuela islamista de la economía política del desarrollo

Abstract

In this article we study the Islamist thought on development by means of the retrospective construction of the Islamist school of Political Economy of Development. Our purpose is answering this question: Does an Islamist school of the development exist? To do it, we have studied the origin and the evolution of the Islamist thought on development, up to identifying to the key Islamist centres of production of thought on development, the key authors, the relationships between them and theirs most principal papers. Later, we have tried to extract an Islamist conception of the development from the above mentioned texts and we have elaborated a synthesis of the principal topics located in those documents -the reaction to the colonialism and neo-colonialism; the economic and political foundations of the development of the Islamic countries-. After this, we concluded that an Islamist school of the development does exist. This school is integrated by those authors who have focused the study of the development and the underdevelopment of the Moslem countries considering that Islam is not only a religion but rather a way of economic, social and political organization of the State, derived from the Koran, rejecting therefore the separation between religion and State.