LEADER 05411nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910458785203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-01641-9 010 $a9786613016416 010 $a0-85724-722-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000060976 035 $a(EBL)662378 035 $a(OCoLC)704447625 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12157306 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10411169 035 $a(PQKB)11244293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC662378 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL662378 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10453163 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301641 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000060976 100 $a20110323d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIslamic economics and finance$b[electronic resource] $ean epistemological inquiry /$fMasudul Alam Choudhury 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBingley, U.K. $cEmerald Group Pub. Ltd.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (395 p.) 225 1 $aContributions to economic analysis,$x0573-8555 ;$v291 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85724-721-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIslamic Economics and Finance an Epistemological Inquiry; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Acknowledgment; Foreword; Glossary of Arabic Terms; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Charts; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: A Technical Insight; 1.1. The quest for epistemic universality and uniqueness in ''everything''; 1.2. The nature of conscious oneness in Islam; 1.3. Economics, finance, and the world-system; 1.4. Technical insight; 1.5. A technical digression on the financing instruments and funds 327 $aCHAPTER 2 The Moral Foundation of Socio-Scientific Episteme2.1. The moral foundation of ''everything''; 2.2. The comprehensive precept of oneness; 2.3. Invoking Islamic economics and finance in the phenomenology of unity of knowledge: an early exploration; 2.4. Definitions and explanations; 2.5. Description of the universe in knowledge-time-space dimensions; 2.6. The Qur'anic macrocosmic universe; 2.7. The Qur'anic microcosmic universe; 2.8. Characterizing the knowledge-time-space dimensions of the Tawhidi world-system; 2.9. Internal dynamics of the learning process in unity of knowledge 327 $a2.10. Describing the universe in mainstream science2.11. Conclusion: so, what is the universe?; CHAPTER 3 The Epistemic Universe of Islamic Economics and Finance; 3.1. The precept of conscious oneness in Islamic economics and finance; 3.2. Formalization of the epistemic dynamics of Islamic economics and finance; 3.3. Islamic political economy within the conscious universe of oneness; 3.4. The assumptions of Islamic economics are different from those of mainstream economics; 3.5. The single principal axiom of Islamic economics and finance 327 $a3.6. Primacy of market process in Islamic economics and finance3.7. Delineating market process in Islamic economics and finance; 3.8. A diagrammatic explanation of permanent instability of mainstream and supply curves; 3.9. Implications of market exchange in finance; 3.10. Arguments against the pricing of financial papers and money by the rate of interest: learning behavior versus utility; 3.11. The concept of value in Islamic economics and finance vis-a?-vis mainstream orthodoxy; 3.12. Macroeconomic implications of demand, supply, and value in mainstream and Islamic financial economics 327 $a3.13. Concept of value is dysfunctional in macroeconomics3.14. Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 The Socio-Scientific Universe According to the Islamic Scholastics; 4.1. The meaning of socio-scientific world-system; 4.2. Defining the idea of socio-scientific; 4.3. The study of world-system by the Islamic scholastic epistemologists; 4.4. Socio-cybernetics of a generalized system model of socioeconomic development; 4.5. Imam Shatibi's Qur'anic epistemology; 4.6. Shari'ah, fiqh, and science; 4.7. Imam Shatibi's conception of maslaha-wal-istihsan as social well-being 327 $a4.8. On the generalized model of Tawhidi unity of knowledge again 330 $aIslamic Economics and Finance: An Epistemological Inquiry is a scholarly work on the foundations of the role that the moral and ethical law plays on human enterprise comprising economics, finance, society and science. Divided into three parts, theoretical, empirical and application, the study covers a vast area of socio-scientific investigation and is extensively comparative in perspective. Its methodology is a mix of a textual, analytical, diagrammatic, mathematical and applied nature spanning various problems of Islamic economics, finance, society and science within a general-system worldvie 410 0$aContributions to economic analysis ;$v291. 606 $aFinance$zIslamic countries 607 $aIslamic countries$xEconomic conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFinance 676 $a330.91767 700 $aChoudhury$b Masudul Alam$f1948-$0120437 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458785203321 996 $aIslamic economics and finance$92174207 997 $aUNINA