The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system : economy, society, ethics and science - Choudhury, Masudul Alam , 1948- (Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2008)
1. Introduction -- 2. Concept of worldview versus paradigm -- 3. Unity of knowledge as the worldview -- 4. Human consciousness -- 5. Islamic economics and finance : the moral basis -- 6. Tawhidi questions of technology and technological change -- 7. Human well-being adversely affected by interest-based financing -- 8. Problems of economic reasoning and the Islamic panacea -- 9. Problems of financial reasoning and the Islamic alternative -- 10. The illogical basis of interest rates -- 11. Questioning modernity by the Tawhidi worldview -- 12. Conclusion -- 13. Glossary of Arabic terms -- 14. References -- 15. Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index
Keywords: Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islam and science; Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)