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Islamization Of Knowledge In Economics: Issues And Agenda

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  • Zubair Hasan

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This paper discusses three issues __ worldview differences, revelation-reason relationship, and the question of methodology __ important for Islamizing knowledge in the field of economics, and presents also the outlines of an agenda for action. Western worldview separates the mundane from the spiritual aspect of human existence while Islam keeps the two unified. This makes the goals, scope, and principles of secular economics in many ways different from those of Islam in the area. Reason alone is the basis of theoretical formulations in secular economics. Islam too encourages people to use intellect for analyzing observations and draw inferences to discover the truth but within the confines of the Shar¬cah: reason is not allowed to violate revelation. Evidently, procedures priorities, and prescriptions, can rarely be the same in the Islamic as in secular economics. Methodology of secular economics essentially is a posterior development. It has invariably sought to rationalize what economists have actually been doing over the centuries so as to fortify the evolving doctrine of free enterprise. In contrast, for Islamic economics the doctrine was already contained in the revelation. To discover __ not to invent __ has been and remains the task of methodology in Islamic economics. Unlike the secular dispensation, the glide here is from methodology to economics, not vice versa. The agenda outlines focus on considerations in preparing reading materials, and in developing curricula.

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  • Zubair Hasan, 1998. "Islamization Of Knowledge In Economics: Issues And Agenda," IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, IIUM Journal of Economis and Management, vol. 6(2), pages 1-40.
    • Handle: RePEc:ije:journl:v:6:y:1998:i:2:p:1-40
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    1. Hasan, Zubair, 2008. "Ialamic finance education at graduate level: Current position and challenges," MPRA Paper 8615, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Zubair HASAN, 2016. "Nature and Significance of Islamic Economics," Journal of Economic and Social Thought, KSP Journals, vol. 3(3), pages 400-416, September.
    3. Hasan, Zubair, 2016. "Evolution of Islamic Economics:Definition, nature, methodology, problems and challenges," MPRA Paper 71858, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Hasan, Zubair, 2008. "Islamic Finance Education At The Graduate Level Current State And Challenges," Islamic Economic Studies, The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), vol. 16, pages 1-29.
    5. Hasan, Zubair, 2018. "Alarming rise in predatory publishing and its consequences for Islamic economics and finance education," MPRA Paper 86146, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 16 Oct 2018.
    6. Aydin, Necati, 2013. "Redefining Islamic Economics as a New Economic Paradigm," Islamic Economic Studies, The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), vol. 21, pages 1-34.
    7. Hasan, Zubair, 2020. "Islamic economics: morality, rationality, and research," MPRA Paper 108326, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Jun 2020.
    8. Ahmed Mohammed, Abdullahi, 2023. "Essay on the Philosophy of Islamic Economics," MPRA Paper 119630, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 20 Dec 2023.
    9. Zubair Hasan, 2021. "Islamic Economics: Morality, Rationality, and Research الاقتصاد الإسلامي: الأخلاق والعقلانية والبحث," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 34(2), pages 111-120, July.

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    • A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
    • A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General

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