This book introduces a new paradigm called ‘Optimization in Changeable Spaces’ (OCS) as a useful tool for decision making and problem solving. It illustrates how OCS incorporates, searches, and constructively restructures the parameters, tangible and intangible, involved in the process of...

This paper proposes a Maqāsid Al-Shari'ah based Composite Index to measure the performance of Socio-economic policies of OIC member countries. The paper employs Al-Imām Al-Ghazāli and Al ImāmAl-Shātibī's Maqāsid Al-Shari'ah framework which was later further extended to contemporary...

The major focus of past literature on Maqasid was on developing the theory, and most of the discussion centered on its legal dimensions. The pioneering works emanated from scholars such as, Al-Juwayni (n.d), AlGhazali (1901), Al-Shatibi (n.d), Ibn ‘Ashur (1998) and Ibn Taymiyyah (alRaysuni,...