The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system : economy, society, ethics and science / Masudul Alam Choudhury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Religious aspects--Islam.

Economics.

Islam and science.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam).

Physical Description:

xiv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2007]

Summary:

Written by a contemporary pioneer in the area of the universal paradigm and Islamic world-systems, this book offers a fresh post-modernist outlook on new epistemological investigations in the universal paradigm. It addresses the problems of the unity of knowledge in learning systems, thereby invoking the foundations of Islamic epistemology. The author presents a phenomenological model of unity of knowledge in economics, ethics, science and society. Some critical areas where this model can be applied are also explored.

As a foundational study on Islamic theory of knowledge covering the fields of Islamic economics, finance, science and society, the book will be valuable to researchers, practitioners and global academic institutions.

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword / by Burhanuddin Abdullah

Introduction

Concept of worldview versus paradigm

Unity of knowledge as the worldview

Human consciousness

Islamic economics and finance : the moral basis

Tawhidi questions of technology and technological change

Human well-being adversely affected by interest-based financing

Problems of economic reasoning and the Islamic panacea

Problems of financial reasoning and the Islamic alternative

The illogical basis of interest rates

Questioning modernity by the Tawhidi worldview

Conclusion

Glossary of Arabic terms

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.

ISBN:

9789812704603

9812704604

OCLC:

167512305