Reforming Muslim World

ISBN-13: 9780710305756 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 350 str.

Choudhury, Masudul Alam

Opis

A comprehensive introduction to an Islamic epistemology for the natural and social sciences. Choudhury builds a philosophy of knowledge from essential sources in the Qur'anic worldview, the Tawhidi creative order, Ghazzali's epistemology, and other examples of Islamic thought to which he compares the foundations of Western epistemology.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION Summary of Chapters CHAPTER 1: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PREMISE OF REFORMATION CHAPTER 2: THE SCIENTIFIC PREMISE OF REFORMATION CHAPTER 3: THE SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC PREMISE OF REFORMATION: FROM MODERNITY TO POST-MODERNITY CHAPTER 4: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORMATION CHAPTER 5: THE INSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF REFORMATION: ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY OF THE FIRM CHAPTER 6: REFORMING THE CAPITAL MARKET: ISLAMIC CONCEPT OF MONEY CHAPTER 7: REFORMATION IN THE MIDST OF GLOBALIZATION. CHAPTER 8: MALAYSIA AND THE MUSLIM WORLD:' TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND BEYOND CHAPTER 9: INSTITUTIONAL REFORMATION: THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCES SYSTEM. CHAPTER 10: POLICY CONCLUSION: UMMATIC TRANSFORMATION

O autorze

Masudul Alam Choudhury