The Nineteenth Century saw the final abandonment of inhibitions against usury, and thus the evolution of usury banking onto its path towards political power. It marked the rise of the financial houses and instruments which led to the Fall of the Caliphate. In this book, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi discloses the link between the technical project, the driver of the Tanẓīmāt—railways in particular—and interest-debt mechanisms and institutions which made the two phenomena seem one; a tantalising Troj ...