Handbook of Islamic Philosophy of Science: Ethics, Economics and Society

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Islamic ethical issues within a wide spectrum of philosophy of science topics, examining the development of the model of moral inclusiveness in economics, science and society from ontological, epistemological and analytical perspectives. This paradigm takes the view that ethics is systemically endogenous, and can be studied by the most rigorous scientific analysis pertaining to diverse issues and problems of ethicality in socio-scientific inquiry. This book takes a sweeping multidisciplinary approach that is deeply phenomenological, to the nature and logic of scientific inquiry of, and in, the Qur’an. Such an approach invokes the episteme of the unity of knowledge in the socio-scientific systemic sense. The book’s respective sections focus on the nature, logic and role that ethics plays in formulating new vistas of alternative epistemic futures in Islamic economics, finance, and the social sciences. It is situated within the broader context of the pandemic, and the post-Covid-19 era, aimed at conceptualising a distinctive new outlook of existence in Islamic philosophy. The content is rigorously conceptual, qualitative, quantitative and applied. Covering a diversity of subject areas from philosophy of science, to economics and sociology within the realm of Islamic philosophy, this is a key text for scholars in these respective arenas, led by pioneering scholar in Islamic studies.

Professor Masudul Alam Choudhury is one of a handful of academic scholars in the field of Islamic studies with a focus on Islamic economics and finance. His work has been highly recognised in both Western and Muslim academic circles. Professor Choudhury obtained his Ph.D. specializing in the field of Human Capital Theory and Economic Growth from the University of Toronto. He is the first academic in his field to address the original methodology of Tawhid (monotheism) as ontological law in the development of a Theory of Meta-Science. Professor Choudhury is the International Chair in the Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance at Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He teaches and supervises doctoral students, and researches and publishes in the areas of Islamic socio-scientific methodology, shari’ah and economics, and policy-theoretic applications using these foundational areas of Islamic studies. He is a regular Summer Visiting Professor in the Social Economy Center of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.