|
Showing 1 - 25 of
35 matches in All Departments
This book is a timely exploration of an unprecedented, cataclysmic
pandemic episode. It examines certain critical aspects of
socio-scientific theory across a variety of diverse themes, and
through an epistemic lens. The book investigates the general theory
of pandemic episodes and their adverse long-term effects on human
and environmental wellbeing. It includes an in-depth study of
COVID-19 but also looks to the future to contemplate potential
pandemics to come. The existing approach to the study of pandemics
is critically examined in terms of the prevalent isolated and thus
mutated way of viewing human and mechanical relations in the name
of specialization and modernity. The book presents a novel model of
science-economy-society moral inclusiveness that forms a
distinctive theoretical approach to the issue of normalizing all
forms of pandemic challenges. It is methodologically different from
existing economic theory, including the critical study of
microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics. Human and
environmental existence along with its multidisciplinary outlook of
unity of knowledge between modernity, traditionalism, and
socio-cultural values is emphasized in the treatment and cure of
pandemic episodes. The book is a unique reference work, offering
fresh wisdom within the moral methodological worldview.
The quest for a systematic unity of the universe in all of its
manifestations is a common topic in Western thought. In this book
the author shows what Islam can bring to this field of human
enquiry. Defining a paradigm of Islamic political economy and world
systems, he presents a study of epistemology in the light of
general systems derived from the Qur'anic premise. The result is an
intellectual endeavour without any dogmatic or reglious and
philosophoical enquiry. First published in 2001. Routledge is an
imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The fields of morality and ethics have been left out significantly
from socio-scientific study in general and in economics and finance
in particular. Yet this book argues that in this age of
post-modernist analytical inquiry, the study of morality and ethics
is an epistemological requirement. This book illustrates the
delimiting nature of mainstream economic reasoning in treating
morality and ethics and highlights the potential contribution of
analytical monotheism, as typified by the Islamic concept of
Tahwid. The principal purpose of this book is to undertake an
introductory exploration of the critical area of comparative
economic thought in order to place the nature and emergence of
ethico-economic theory in its proper context. It is ultimately
argued that such a post-orthodoxy revolutionary methodological
worldview can be presented by Islamic political economy, Islamic
economics and finance.
This highly original book presents an alternative vision of
globalization and explores the epistemology, derived from the
Qur'an and the Prophetic guidance Sunnah, that underpins the
systemic unity at the heart of the Islamic concept of world-system.
Choudhury's investigation reveals the ethical foundations that
influence the development of law, markets and social contract in
Islamic societies. He then applies his methodology to issues and
problems such as property rights, money, political economy,
technology diffusion, microenterprise development and asset
evaluation.
Contents: Part I: Theoretical Perspectives 1. A Theory of the Islamic World-System 2. A Formal Model of the Islamic World-System 3. An Evaluation of the Occidental World-System Part II: Applied Perspectives 4. A General Systems Theory of Knowledge: Application to Family and Ecology 5. The World-System According IBN Khaldun's Prolegomena comparatively viewed 6. The Islamic Political Economy of Property and Property Rights: Concepts and Application 7. Micro-Money: Islamic Perspective 8. An Overlapping Generation Valuation Model with Debt-Equity Swaps 9. A Knowledge Model of Layers of Techniques 10. Conclusion
Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real
world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In
this overview of God-consciousness as a moral-awareness model of
preference formation, functions, structures, and programs of
organization within the purview of institutions and society, the
authors explain and compare the major ethical issues of
organizational behaviour and structure in Islamic economic theory
and application. By analysing the nature of inclusive organizations
and institutions, and the ethical preferences in Islamic choice
framework, the authors from Saudi Arabia, Australia, Malaysia,
Bangladesh, Canada, Indonesia and the UK, can highlight individual
aspects to show whether capitalist organizational behaviour is
sustainable. They describe how The Tawhidi epistemological
framework governing conscious moral decision-making by institutions
and organization, are used to establish the meaning and potential
application of the concept of sustainability, and whether
organizational moral objectives achieve their goals of
life-fulfilment development, Poverty alleviation and the equitable
distribution of wealth and resources.
Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough,
deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of
epistemological foundation of Islamic world-system. The book
presents a new frontier of original contribution to the theme of
generalized-system model of shari'ah. The model, derived from the
Qur'an and Sunnah (Prophetic guidance) incorporates a wide
analytical coverage of the purpose and objective of the Islamic
worldview (maqasid as-shari'ah) in Islamic economics and finance in
particular. The author covers issues that contrast with the
existing understanding of Islamic economics and finance, including
some specific goals defining the field and how they compare in
today's unstable world of financial volatility. A new heterodox
thinking in economic theory is outlined. The potential as to how
such issues can be addressed by the Tawhidi epistemology in
formulating the generalized-system model of the purpose and
objective of shari'ah lead the way in this book. Its presentation
and analysis, methods and approach, overarch the fields of
philosophy of science, rigorous analysis, mathematical and other
presentations of the understanding given, and all taken up in the
light of the exegesis of the Qur'an and coverage of the Sunnah. The
result is a substantive one in the field of scholarship and
application; and in analytically proving the universality and
uniqueness of the epistemic worldview for the academic and
practitioner world at large. The totality of the multiverse
diversity of issues and problems reviewed comprise the study of the
world-system by the Tawhidi methodological approach. Yet this
methodology and its empirical configuration are universally
applicable to all users without any need for unnecessary religious
overtone.
This book is a timely exploration of an unprecedented, cataclysmic
pandemic episode. It examines certain critical aspects of
socio-scientific theory across a variety of diverse themes, and
through an epistemic lens. The book investigates the general theory
of pandemic episodes and their adverse long-term effects on human
and environmental wellbeing. It includes an in-depth study of
COVID-19 but also looks to the future to contemplate potential
pandemics to come. The existing approach to the study of pandemics
is critically examined in terms of the prevalent isolated and thus
mutated way of viewing human and mechanical relations in the name
of specialization and modernity. The book presents a novel model of
science-economy-society moral inclusiveness that forms a
distinctive theoretical approach to the issue of normalizing all
forms of pandemic challenges. It is methodologically different from
existing economic theory, including the critical study of
microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics. Human and
environmental existence along with its multidisciplinary outlook of
unity of knowledge between modernity, traditionalism, and
socio-cultural values is emphasized in the treatment and cure of
pandemic episodes. The book is a unique reference work, offering
fresh wisdom within the moral methodological worldview.
The quest for a systemic unity of the universe in all of its
manifestations is a common topic in Western thought. In "The
Islamic World View," Masudul Alam Choudhury shows what Islam can
bring to this field of human inquiry. Defining a paradigm of
Islamic political economy and world systems, he presents the study
of epistemology in the light of general systems derived from the
Qur'anic premise. The result is an intellectual endeavour without
any dogmatic or religious inhibition that extends the scope of
religious inhibition that extends the scope of religious and
philosophical inquiry.
This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the
Qur'anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta'wil, the
esoteric meaning of Qur'anic verses. It presents a comparative
analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary
subject of Shari'ah. Masudul Alam Choudhury brings about a serious
criticism of the traditional understanding of Shari'ah as Islamic
law contrary to the holistic socio-scientific worldview of the
unity of knowledge arising from Tawhid as the law. A bold
repudiation of the Islamic traditional understanding and the school
of theocracy, Choudhury's critique is in full consonance with the
Qur'an and Sunnah. It is critical of the sectarian (madhab)
conception of relational independence of facts. Thus the
non-creative outlook of Shari'ah contrasts with universality and
uniqueness of Tawhid as the analytically established law explaining
the monotheistic organic unity of being and becoming in
'everything'. This wide and strict methodological development of
the Tawhidi worldview is articulated in this work. The only way
that Tawhid and Shari'ah can converge as law is in terms of
developing the Tawhidi methodology, purpose and objective of the
universal and unique law in consonance with the ontology of Tawhid.
Such a convergence in the primal ontological sense of Tawhid is
termed as maqasid as-shari'ah al-Tawhid.
This book presents the building blocks of Islamic economics as
meso-science, offering an in-depth study of the Qur'anic worldview
of the monotheistic unity of knowledge, which is the universal and
unique message of Tawhid in the Qur'an. This primal ontological
premise is formalised in an analytical approach that introduces and
unpacks the philosophical concepts of ontology, epistemology, and
phenomenology in relation to the Tawhidi methodological worldview.
The analysis of Qur'anic logical consistency is then cast in a
phenomenological perspective by applying the complete model of the
unity of knowledge of the Qur'an in a specific study of the Tawhidi
methodological approach to Islamic financial-economic theory. In
doing so, it tackles the problems of meso-economics given its
socio-scientific holism in world affairs. It hones in on the
results of the symbiotic modulation of evolutionary learning
processes in the world system of the unity of knowledge and its
material embedding across knowledge, and knowledge-induced space
and time dimensions. The author poses that Shari'ah is only partial
in its scope, and excludes an analytical methodological worldview.
Shari'ah is thus cast in the midst of a meso-socio-scientific
absence of any appertaining methodology. The book is a landmark
work in the conceptual and applied understanding of Tawhid as the
methodological worldview of the monotheistic unity of knowledge in
the meso-socio-scientific realm of 'everything', particularised to
Islamic economics. Adopting an inter-disciplinary view integrating
various fields, it challenges pervasive Western academic and
institutional thinking in terms of economics. It will be of
interest to students and researchers in Islamic economics,
religious theory, Islamic philosophy, development studies, and
finance.
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 worldview of unity of knowledge. This book
presents multidimensional general-system conception, construction,
formalism, application and inference as empirically viable and
explainable and uses the language of philosophy of science and
applied mathematical models alongside policy analysis. At a time
when an epistemological study of the foundations of Islamic
economics, finance, society and science is receiving crucial
attention worldwide this text is equally accessible to the informed
reader and the specialized one.
This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur'an, which is
signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the
framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified
world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a
framework the absolute reality reveals itself not by religious
dogmatism. Rather, the methodology precisely comprises its
distinctive parts. These are namely the 'primal ontology' as the
foundational explained axiom of monotheistic unity; the 'secondary
ontologies' as explanatory replications of the law of unity in the
particulars of the world-system; 'epistemology' as the operational
model; and 'phenomenology' as the structural nature of events
induced by the monotheistic law, that is by knowledge emanating
from the law. The imminent methodology remains the unique
explanatory reference of all events that take place, advance, and
change in continuity across continuums of knowledge, space, and
time.
This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur'an, which is
signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the
framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified
world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a
framework the absolute reality reveals itself not by religious
dogmatism. Rather, the methodology precisely comprises its
distinctive parts. These are namely the 'primal ontology' as the
foundational explained axiom of monotheistic unity; the 'secondary
ontologies' as explanatory replications of the law of unity in the
particulars of the world-system; 'epistemology' as the operational
model; and 'phenomenology' as the structural nature of events
induced by the monotheistic law, that is by knowledge emanating
from the law. The imminent methodology remains the unique
explanatory reference of all events that take place, advance, and
change in continuity across continuums of knowledge, space, and
time.
Comparative Economic Theory: Occidental and Islamic Perspectives
seeks first to elucidate the nature and methodology of Islamic
political economy as a process-oriented social economy guided by
its cardinal epistemology of Oneness of God (Divine Unity). From
this premise is then derived the episteme of unification of
knowledge upon which is developed the methodological content of an
extremely interactive, integrative and revolutionary world-view of
political economy and a meta-theory of the socio-scientific order.
Secondly, while laying out the building blocks of Islamic political
economy and its much wider methodological implication for the
socio-scientific order, this book offers a comparative study of
occidental thought in the same areas. Thirdly, topics of
microeconomics and macroeconomic theory are covered. This book
concludes with chapters on methodology and an analytical postscript
to show how the interactive, integrative and evolutionary
world-view of knowledge-induced systems described by the Islamic
political economy presents new visions of scientific thinking.
Comparative Economic Theory: Occidental and Islamic Perspectives
seeks first to elucidate the nature and methodology of Islamic
political economy as a process-oriented social economy guided by
its cardinal epistemology of Oneness of God (Divine Unity). From
this premise is then derived the episteme of unification of
knowledge upon which is developed the methodological content of an
extremely interactive, integrative and revolutionary world-view of
political economy and a meta-theory of the socio-scientific order.
Secondly, while laying out the building blocks of Islamic political
economy and its much wider methodological implication for the
socio-scientific order, this book offers a comparative study of
occidental thought in the same areas. Thirdly, topics of
microeconomics and macroeconomic theory are covered. This book
concludes with chapters on methodology and an analytical postscript
to show how the interactive, integrative and evolutionary
world-view of knowledge-induced systems described by the Islamic
political economy presents new visions of scientific thinking.
The Malaysian economy is developing fast within the context of
increasing globalization. The book analyses in depth Malaysia's
policies aimed at promoting international trade, economic growth
and social welfare. It also studies Malaysia's position in the
Southeast Asia region and in a global context. This analysis forms
the basis for the formulation of an alternative development
strategy, whose aim is producing a caring civil society and
enhancing the general welfare of the population while developing
the economy.
Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough,
deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of
epistemological foundation of Islamic world-system. The book
presents a new frontier of original contribution to the theme of
generalized-system model of shari'ah. The model, derived from the
Qur'an and Sunnah (Prophetic guidance) incorporates a wide
analytical coverage of the purpose and objective of the Islamic
worldview (maqasid as-shari'ah) in Islamic economics and finance in
particular. The author covers issues that contrast with the
existing understanding of Islamic economics and finance, including
some specific goals defining the field and how they compare in
today's unstable world of financial volatility. A new heterodox
thinking in economic theory is outlined. The potential as to how
such issues can be addressed by the Tawhidi epistemology in
formulating the generalized-system model of the purpose and
objective of shari'ah lead the way in this book. Its presentation
and analysis, methods and approach, overarch the fields of
philosophy of science, rigorous analysis, mathematical and other
presentations of the understanding given, and all taken up in the
light of the exegesis of the Qur'an and coverage of the Sunnah. The
result is a substantive one in the field of scholarship and
application; and in analytically proving the universality and
uniqueness of the epistemic worldview for the academic and
practitioner world at large. The totality of the multiverse
diversity of issues and problems reviewed comprise the study of the
world-system by the Tawhidi methodological approach. Yet this
methodology and its empirical configuration are universally
applicable to all users without any need for unnecessary religious
overtone.
A study of ethico-economic theorizing on socio-economic
development, this book examines critically the views currently held
by theoreticians' comprehensive concept of the world view in
development theory, then reconsiders various global issues, both in
theoretical and applied perspectives.
This book examines the methodological development of the principles
of Islamic political economy in its theoretical and applied
aspects. This is carried out in a general equilibrium framework
using the theory of social choice. Thus a comparative study is also
undertaken here in these areas while developing the theory of
Islamic political economy. In these respects this book appears to
be the first one of its kind.
The main objective of this book is to develop the framework of the
"shuratic" process that establishes interactions between the
ethical principles of Islam, the instruments and institutions of
ethical policy and the market system. The market system is thus
shown as the arena where "shuratic" policies and Islamic principles
flourish side by side toward bringing about the integration between
the Islamic polity and the grand ecological order of which the
market system is a specific subset. The development of the key
principles and instruments of the Islamic ethico-economic order is
given in a rigorous scientific relevance based on the
epistemological foundations of the Quran and "Sunnah". From these
fundamental beginnings the book rapidly unfolds into the logistics
of the polity-market integration process, termed throughout the
book as the "shuratic" process. The labyrinth of transformations,
interrelationships and scientific meaningness of these relations
are shown to lead into dimensions in economic theory and economic
discipline. The Principles of the Islamic economy are, the
principle of "Tawhid" and solidarity, the Principle of Felicity
linked to the Principle of "Tawhid", the Pr
This book examines the methodological development of the principles
of Islamic political economy in its theoretical and applied
aspects. This is carried out in a general equilibrium framework
using the theory of social choice. Thus a comparative study is also
undertaken here in these areas while developing the theory of
Islamic political economy. In these respects this book appears to
be the first one of its kind.
Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real
world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In
this overview of God-consciousness as a moral-awareness model of
preference formation, functions, structures, and programs of
organization within the purview of institutions and society, the
authors explain and compare the major ethical issues of
organizational behaviour and structure in Islamic economic theory
and application. By analysing the nature of inclusive organizations
and institutions, and the ethical preferences in Islamic choice
framework, the authors from Saudi Arabia, Australia, Malaysia,
Bangladesh, Canada, Indonesia and the UK, can highlight individual
aspects to show whether capitalist organizational behaviour is
sustainable. They describe how The Tawhidi epistemological
framework governing conscious moral decision-making by institutions
and organization, are used to establish the meaning and potential
application of the concept of sustainability, and whether
organizational moral objectives achieve their goals of
life-fulfilment development, Poverty alleviation and the equitable
distribution of wealth and resources.
The fields of morality and ethics have been left out significantly
from socio-scientific study in general and in economics and finance
in particular. Yet this book argues that in this age of
post-modernist analytical inquiry, the study of morality and ethics
is an epistemological requirement. This book illustrates the
delimiting nature of mainstream economic reasoning in treating
morality and ethics and highlights the potential contribution of
analytical monotheism, as typified by the Islamic concept of
Tahwid. The principal purpose of this book is to undertake an
introductory exploration of the critical area of comparative
economic thought in order to place the nature and emergence of
ethico-economic theory in its proper context. It is ultimately
argued that such a post-orthodoxy revolutionary methodological
worldview can be presented by Islamic political economy, Islamic
economics and finance.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|