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The Dynamics of the Shari’ah and the World-System ديناميكية الشريعة الإسلامية والنظام العالمي

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  • Masudul Alam Choudhury

    (Depart. of Economics and Finance College of Commerce and Economics Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.)

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The topic of Islamic worldview versus neo-liberalism is discussed. The epistemology of unity of divine knowledge called Tawhid in the Qur’an as the basis of the Islamic future is contrasted with that of self-interest and individual sovereignty in liberalism. The methodology underlying the Tawhidi worldview as the overarching formalism of unifying world-systems is explained. Premised on this universal methodology of systems-based unity of knowledge the creative co-evolutionary process model involving knowledge-flows and knowledge-induced entities of world-systems is explained. The example of capitalist globalization as the offshoot of neo-liberalism is contrasted with the demands and organization of the Islamic world-system called the Ummah. The alternative framework of Ummatic globalization in contrast to capitalist globalization is suggested. Some of the underlying artifacts of this momentous change, particularly the money-finance-real economy complementary linkages according to the systemic unity of Tawhidi knowledge and using the instruments of the Shari’ah are examined. The dynamics of the Shari’ah is explained in terms of the Tawhidi worldview in contrast to how the framework of the Shari’ah is understood by the prevalent Muslim mind far away from an endogenous functioning of the Tawhidi episteme in it. Prevalent thinking in Islamic economics, finance, science and society is critically examined against the background of the Tawhidi methodological worldview. The paper concludes with relevant policy prescriptions. تناقش الورقة النظرة العالمية الإسلامية مقابل الليبرالية الجديدة. ويتم هنا مقارنة الابستمولوجيا المتضمنة في القاعدة المعرفية للتوحيد كأساس للمستقبل الإسلامي مع تلك المعرفة الخاصة بالمصلحة الشخصية والحرية الفردية في الليبرالية. وهنا نوضح المنهجية التي تقوم عليها النظرة التوحيدية كصياغة لأنظمة العوالم التوحيدية.وتأسيساً على هذه المنهجية الجامعة للوحدة المعرفية القائمة على النظم فإننا نقدم شرحًا للنموذج التصوري الخلاق المتضمن في التدفقات المعرفية والوحدات التي تحفزها أو تثيرها المعرفة لأنظمة العوالم. ومثال العولمة الرأسمالية كفرع لليبرالية الجديدة تتم مقابلته مع إطار نظم العوالم الإسلامي المسمى الأمة، وهنا يتم اقتراح إطار العمل البديل للعولمة للأمة الإسلامية بالمقارنة بالعولمة الرأسمالية. ويتم هنا كذلك فحص أدوات أو وسائل التغير عظيم الأهمية، وعلى وجه الخصوص الروابط التكاملية بين النقود والمال والاقتصاد الحقيقي، وفقًا لوحدة المعرفة النظامية لمعرفة التوحيد واستخدام أدوات الشريعة.إن ديناميكيات الشريعة يتم توضيحها على أساس النظرة العالمية للتوحيد بالمقارنة مع فهم إطار عمل الشريعة بالعقلية الإسلامية السائدة، التي هي بعيدة جدًا عن العمل الداخلي للابستمولوجيا التوحيدية المتضمنة فيها.

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  • Masudul Alam Choudhury, 2010. "The Dynamics of the Shari’ah and the World-System ديناميكية الشريعة الإسلامية والنظام العالمي," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 23(2), pages 201-227, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:23:y:2010:i:2:no:7:p:201-227
    DOI: 10.4197/islec.23-2.7
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