Principles and Instruments of The Islamic Political Economy

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Principles and Instruments of

the Islamic Political Economy


Definition of Economics in Islamic
Perspective
 The Quranic view on the availability of resources is that God has
provided abundance to mankind in the universe, and that the total resources
at his disposable are sufficient enough to sustain mankind
 The idea of self-sufficiency in Islamic economics means that the Islamic
basket of goods comprises specific types. They are necessaries, comforts
and luxuries graded in this order according to the requirements of basic
needs, distributive equity and productive capability of the society at any
point of time
 Allocation, scarcity and competition are the inescapable characteristics of the
neoclassical order because it aims at constructing a positivistic
view of the economic world based on economic competition
Difference between Islam and
Neoclassical view
 The principal source of difference in the definition of economics in the
Islamic and neoclassical framework is the model of the individual they
differently construct
 In Islam, the individual is a cooperative being endowed with fundamental
ethical qualities and a Divine Law to govern and be governed by
DERIVATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF 'TAWHID' AND
HUMAN SOLIDARITY

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