Islamic economics and finance [[electronic resource] ] : an epistemological inquiry / / Masudul Alam Choudhury

• Autore: Choudhury Masudul Alam <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Bingley, U.K., : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.91767
• Soggetto topico: Finance - Islamic countries
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Economic conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Islamic 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 ; CHAPTER 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 ; 2.10. 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 ; 3.6. 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-à-vis mainstream orthodoxy; 3.12. Macroeconomic implications of demand, supply, and value in mainstream and Islamic financial economics ; 3.13. 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 ; 4.8. On the generalized model of Tawhidi unity of knowledge again
• Sommario/riassunto: Islamic 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Islamic economics and finance
• ISBN: 1-283-01641-9; 9786613016416; 0-85724-722-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458785203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to economic analysis ; ; 291.