TY - BOOK AU - Choudhury,Masudul Alam ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system: economy, society, ethics and science AV - BP173.75 .C493 2007 U1 - 297.2/7 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Hackensack, NJ PB - World Scientific KW - Economics KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Islam and science KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1681277 ER -