Tag el-Din's interesting paper (Tag el-Din, (1997) aims to prove that the "conventional" positivist (secular) growth theory fails to optimize growth in the broader sense of maximizing social welfare. The reason for this failure, according to him, is its narrow positivistic motivation, which sees...

Rodney Wilson's book aims to highlight the religious-ethical basis of economic actions through the kaleidoscope of` "comparative religions perspectives on economics" (p. 21). The economic teachings of the three great religions in the Abrahamic tradition - namely, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...

The paper answers in the affirmative the question about the need for an Islamic economic model, and then proceeds to delineate its dimensions. The distinguishing characteristic of such a model is to highlight the ethical dimension of the economic calculus - i.e., that without ethical moorings...