The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system economy, society, ethics and science /

Main Author: Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10255990
Table of Contents:
  • 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.