Title: Knowledge and life: comparative Islamic development perspectives

Authors: Masudul Alam Choudhury

Addresses: Department of Economics and Finance, College of Commerce and Economics, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Sultanate of Oman

Abstract: The concept of knowledge in the knowledge-based new economy is critically examined in the light of its inability to offer human lives with greater well-being. The other forms of new attention economy are shown to have appeared as challenges to the capitalist globalisation raised under the banner of discontent and demand for a more meaningful human relationship within the knowledge economy. Yet these developments are shown to be inadequate for human well-being on methodological grounds. The Qur|anic worldview of knowledge and life is then expounded as the ever-new foundation and application of a universal socio-scientific methodology for reconstructing the individual and social order.

Keywords: socioeconomic development; epistemology; political economy; world systems; knowledge economy; Islam.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2011.037963

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2011 Vol.2 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Published online: 11 Oct 2014 *

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