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

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ISBN:

9789812790835

9781281938459

Title:

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

Author:

Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Personal Author:

Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) : illustrations

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.

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Subject Term:

Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam.

Islam and science.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2007

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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.