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The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system

economy, society, ethics and science

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Publisher
World Scientific
Language
English
Pages
169

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.

Published in
Hackensack, NJ

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
297.2/7
Library of Congress
BP173.75 .C493 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 169 p. :
Number of pages
169

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18498327M
Internet Archive
universalparadig00chou
ISBN 10
9812704604
ISBN 13
9789812704603
LCCN
2007035459
Goodreads
3051382

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