Economic growth and human resource development in an Islamic perspective

The volume is a collection of papers from the Fourth International Islamic Economics Seminar held at the World Bank in 1992. The papers were chosen from all presented at the conference through a peer review process. Sayyid Muhammad Syeed discusses the seminar in his foreword. The editor's preface principally serves to introduce each work. There are eight distinct papers, four theoretical ones and four drawing on empirical data. Taha J. al 'Alwani's introduction deals with the Islamisation of knowledge. He writes about Western proliferation of its ideas. He sees knowledge's Islamisation as a methodological change rather than merely superficial additions to the same sort of studies. The importance of economics is underscored. It would be erroneous, according to al 'Alwani, to imitate the West blindly. Each individual contribution is described in this database as a distinct work.