01976nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10255990 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070824s2007 njua sb 001 0 eng 2007035459 9789812704603 9812704604 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646769041 BP173.75 .C493 2007eb 297.2/7 22 Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948- The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system [electronic resource] : economy, society, ethics and science / Masudul Alam Choudhury. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007. xiv, 169 p. : ill. 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Economics Religious aspects Islam. Islam and science. Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10255990 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 14404 14404