Masudul Alam Choudhury Paperback 9781138883925 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. 1: General Perspectives: The Worldviews Of Islam And The Occident 2: The Our’anic Worldview In The Sciences 3: The Our’anic Model Of Knowledge: The Interactive, Integrative And Evolutionary Process 4: Comparative Political Economy: Islam And The Occident 5: Islamic Political Economy, A Critique Of Islamic Economics 6: Knowledge And Interactions In Political Economy And Economic Theory 7: Complementarity In The Our’anic Ecological Model 8: Decision-Making In Islamic Political Economy 9: Islamic Consumption, Production And Distributional Menus 10: Contrasting Models Of Knowledge And ‘De-Knowledge’ 11: Conclusion
