AHMAD, Bashiruddin Mahmood.

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The Economic Structure of Islamic Society. First edition of this lecture delivered by Mizra Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1889-1965), the second leader of the Ahmadyyia Muslim community, and son of Mizra Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadyyia, an Islamic messianic movement established in 19th-century India. A study of Islamic social and economic thought, and its differences to Soviet Communism, the lecture was published by the Nazim Book Depot Tahrik-i-Jadid in Qadian, Punjab, the birthplace of the Ahmadyyia.It examines the social and economic structures of Islam, based on the Qur'an and the shari'ah, in relation to subjects such as economic inequality and the use of wealth, supporting the poor as an issue of national importance, fair treatment of war prisoners, price devaluation, control of public money, and the law of inheritance. It then compares these ideas to their Communist counterparts in Soviet Russia. The first important difference is that "Communism shuts the door against individual enterprise and the due development of exceptional individual capabilities while Islam leaves this door open", as, unlike Islam, Communism destroys personal liberty "reducing human beings to senseless cogs in a soul-less machine". There follows further critique against Communism's rejection of religion and its views on work, property and ownership, education, economic markets, equality, and the dangers of capitalism.According to the pencilled inscription on the inner front wrapper, this copy

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