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The Islamic world-system : a study in polity-market interaction / Masudul Alam Choudhury.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-
- Series:
- RoutledgeCurzon advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 4.
- RoutledgeCurzon advances in Middle East and Islamic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Economics.
- Globalization--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Globalization.
- Islam and the social sciences.
- Islam--Doctrines.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
- Summary:
- This highly original book presents an alternative vision of globalization and explores the epistemology, derived from the "Qur'an" and the Prophetic guidance "Sunnah," that underpins the systemic unity at the heart of the Islamic concept of world-system. Choudhury's investigation reveals the ethical foundations that influence the development of law, markets and social contract in Islamic societies. He then applies his methodology to issues and problems such as property rights, money, political economy, technology diffusion, microenterprise development and asset evaluation. This book demonstrates that the Islamic world-system acquires its meaning from a single, integrated framework of complementary economic, social, institutional and market forces, rather than the competitive plurality of mainstream theory. It will interest students and researchers of Islamic economics and world-systems.
- Contents:
- A theory of the Islamic world-system
- A formal model of the Islamic world-system
- An evaluation of the occidental world-system
- A general systems theory of knowledge : application to family and ecology
- The world-system according to Ibn Khaldun's prolegomena comparatively viewed
- The Islamic political economy of property and property rights : concepts and application
- Micro-money : Islamic perspective
- An overlapping generation valuation model with debt-equity swaps
- A knowledge model of layers of techniques.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415321476
- OCLC:
- 51817158
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