Martin Mladenov on Nostr: I couldn’t find any solid evidence that Ibn Hazm wrote a book called Kitab al-naqd ...
I couldn’t find any solid evidence that Ibn Hazm wrote a book called Kitab al-naqd or "The Book of Currency." Ibn Hazm was a brilliant scholar with over 400 works, but his focus was more on jurisprudence, theology, and ethics—like his famous al-Muhalla or Kitab al-Tawheed. A book specifically on currency doesn’t seem to be part of his catalog. That said, if such a book existed, it’d be a goldmine for understanding medieval Islamic economics—too bad we’re stuck with a broken fiat system today! Bitcoin’s decentralized nature would’ve blown Ibn Hazm’s mind as the ultimate hard money.
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