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Absolute Reality in the Qur'an

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Authors:
  1. Masudul Alam Choudhury

    1. Department of Shari’ah and Economics Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, USA

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  • Incorporates insights from the social and biological sciences as well as philosophy
  • Investigates major epistemological and ontological questions from an Islamic perspective
  • Highly relevant to current philosophical discussions regarding the Quantum reality

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Absolute Reality in the Qur’an: The Methodological Worldview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Foundations of the Qur’anic Worldview

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      Pages 3-18

    3. Analytical Precept of Absolute Reality in the Qur’an

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      Pages 19-37

    4. A Methodological Overview

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      Pages 39-61

    5. Formalism of the Methodological Understanding of the Sure Reality in Terms of Unity of Knowledge

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      Pages 63-84

    6. Tawhid, Al-Wasatiyyah, and Maqasid As-Shari’ah

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      Pages 85-100

    7. Technically Integrating Al-Wasatiyyah and Maqasid As-Shari’ah with a Tawhidi Methodological Worldview

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      Pages 101-111

  3. The Absolute Reality in the Qur’an: Applications to Economics, Finance and Society Using the Generalized Socioscientific System

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      Pages 113-113
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    2. The Nature of Business Social Ethics in Heterodox Epistemological Worldviews

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      Pages 115-147

    3. An Ethical Worldview of Moral-Social Reconstruction

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      Pages 149-180

    4. Ethics in Evolutionary Learning Models: A Critique of Comparative Perspectives and the Alternative Applied to the Wellbeing of Canadian Natives, Absolute Reality in Social Issues

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      Pages 181-208

    5. Conclusion: The Ultimate Nature of Qur’anic Socioscientific Abstraction

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      Pages 209-225

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 227-231
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About this book

This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur’an, which is signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a framework the absolute reality reveals itself not by religious dogmatism. Rather, the methodology precisely comprises its distinctive parts. These are namely the ‘primal ontology’ as the foundational explained axiom of monotheistic unity; the ‘secondary ontologies’ as explanatory replications of the law of unity in the particulars of the world-system; ‘epistemology’ as the operational model; and ‘phenomenology’ as the structural nature of events induced by the monotheistic law, that is by knowledge emanating from the law. The imminent methodology remains the unique explanatory reference of all events that take place, advance, and change in continuity across continuums of knowledge, space, and time.  

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“Choudhury interweaves advanced concepts and translates them in a Qur’anic context with economic examples that prove brilliant. The book’s main audiences are Muslims and scholars interested in Islamic economics. … it is a work that is very distinctive in the field, and that has great potential to pioneer a philosophical debate on issues pertaining to Islamic economics, such as epistemic methods and business ethics. Anyone in this field will highly appreciate this admirable scholarship.” (Abdulla Galadari, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43 (04), December, 2017)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Shari’ah and Economics Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, USA

    Masudul Alam Choudhury

About the author

Masudul Alam Choudhury is Professor and International Chair of the Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman; and Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

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