The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system
Subtitle: economy, society, ethics and science
By: Masudul Alam Choudhury.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9789812704603
Subjects: Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islam and science; Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword / by Burhanuddin Abdullah; title: Introduction; title: Concept of worldview versus paradigm; title: Unity of knowledge as the worldview; title: Human consciousness; title: Islamic economics and finance : the moral basis; title: Tawhidi questions of technology and technological change; title: Human well-being adversely affected by interest-based financing; title: Problems of economic reasoning and the Islamic panacea; title: Problems of financial reasoning and the Islamic alternative; title: The illogical basis of interest rates; title: Questioning modernity by the Tawhidi worldview; title: Conclusion; title: Glossary of Arabic terms; title: References; title: Index.