TY - BOOK AU - Choudhury,Masudul Alam ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The universal paradigm and the Islamic world-system: economy, society, ethics and science AV - BP173.75 .C493 2007eb 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 KW - local 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; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10255990 ER -