International Institute of Islamic Thought

When Western influences began to pervade the

This book is a compilation of articles presented at the Fourth International Islamic Economics Seminar which concentrated on the topic of economic growth and human resource development in an Islamic perspective. There is an introduction before each of the articles. The individual contributions have been entered in this database as distinct works. _x000D_

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.

The book is a compilation of eleven distinct papers on various topics in Islamic economics, ranging from the conceptual to the technical. Amomong the authors are Monzer Kahf, Masudul Alam Choudhury, and Sattar himself. Taha Jabir al Alwani, in the book's foreword, discusses the importance of intellectual development. The editor's preface mentions the end of 'mono-economics'--the idea that a single economic system was suitable for all cultures and value systems.

The book is a work divided into seven chapters, the first of which deals with the development of the interest system in the face of the religious, moral, and social unacceptability of the institution. The interest-based system also spread throughout the world as a consequence of the colonialist practices of developed countries. The work's second portion is concerned with the ideas behind Islamic economics and financial operations free of interest. The third chapter is devoted to seeing how a model of an Islamic economy can be constructed. The model is to be drawn from looking at the West.

The work's twelve chapters are put into two parts. The first part is focused on the unsuccessful economic systems of the world; the second, on the Islamic response to economic concerns. The first chapter discusses first the theory and then the shortcomings of Capitalism. Next, the author's attention is turned to the ideas and the limitations of Socialism. The third chapter is concerned with the outlook of the welfare state and the problems therein. Flaws in development economics are discussed next.

The volume is a compilation of works from the 1993 Fifth International Islamic Economics Seminar held inWashington,DC. Dilnawaz Siddiqui's foreword is principally concerned with the conference itself. The introduction, contributed by Mohieldin Attia, touches on the state of Islamic economics and focuses on the International Institute of Islamic Thought. The editor's preface acknowledges contributions and briefly introduces papers contained in the volume.