The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system : economy, society, ethics and science / Masudul Alam Choudhury.
By: Choudhury, Masudul Alam
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BookPublisher: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007Description: xiv, 169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9789812704603; 9812704604.Subject(s): Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Islam and science | Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | BP 173.75 C493 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.
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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