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The Islamic Epistemological Worldview and Empirical Study of
Socioeconomic Integration in the Ummah
Masudul Alam Choudhury
ISBN 978-967-418-411-7
Pages : 172
Price : RM 55.00 / € 20.00
Year : 2016
This research work done during the author's tenure as professorial
chair of Islamic finance in the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance,
IIUM is on the topic of a dynamic study of socioeconomic integration of
the Islamic world-system called the ummah taken in its conceptual and
empirical contexts. There is also a vast amount of policy and strategic
recommendations from the policy-theoretic applied work. The study
is different from the usual kind of writings that use sheer empirical
models and analysis to study the same topic. Such studies have
consistently missed the foundation of the epistemological worldview that is known to comprise
the totality of the world-system study. Within this domain lies the epistemological investigation
that carries the broad worldview of the values and cultural heritages that are known to colour
the total study of the world-system. From such a wide span of the epistemological meaning
arise a systemic design of the universe and men’s experience in it as the world-system of
balance.

The Qur'an, Modernity and Globalization
Edited by: Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi
ISBN 978-967-418-333-2
Pages : 182
Price : RM 62.00 / € 20.00
Year : 2014

The seven chapters making up the present book are elaborate
versions of papers that had been read by their respective authors
in a one-day seminar held in July 2002 at the International Islamic
University Malaysia in commemoration of the eminent Algerian thinker
Malik Bennabi. The unifying theme of the book’s material is Qur’an-
inspired intellectual and scholarly engagement with the philosophical
and moral challenges posed by the complex process of modernity and
globalization in the different spheres of human life.