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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814863903321

Autore

Choudhury Masudul Alam <1948->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-93845-9

9786611938451

981-279-083-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 169 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

297.2/7

Soggetti

Economics - Religious aspects - Islam

Islam and science

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."