Course curriculum

  • 1

    0: Introduction to Course

    • 0.0 Overview and Outline

    • 0.1 Purpose, Intentions, and Useful Knowledge

    • 0.2 The Fellow Traveler Educational Model

    • 0.3 Fundamental Principles of An Islamic Education

    • 0.4 - Islamization of Knowledge

    • 0.5 Reaching Beyond the Stars

    • Reference Materials
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    1: Crisis in Islamic Economics

    • 1.1 Introduction

    • 1.2- Crisis in 2nd Generation Islamic Economics

    • 1.3 - Four Flaws of Western Economics

    • 1.4 - Two Puzzles About Islamic Economics

    • 1.5 Four Revolutionary Islamic Concepts

    • 1.6: Pragmatic Objections to Visionary 3rd Generation Islamic Economics

    • 1.7: Golden Opportunity for 3rd Generation Islamic Economics
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    2: Gratitude, Contentment, and Trust

    • 2.1 Gratitude

    • 2.2 Contentment

    • 2.3 Trust

    • 2.4 Methodology

    • 2.5 Economics

    • 2.6 Politics

    • 2.7 Uloom-ul-Umran
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    3: Western Social Sciences

    • 3.1 The Puzzle of Western Social Science

    • 3.2 Origins of Western Social Sciences

    • 3.3 Rebuilding Social Sciences on Islamic Foundations - Part 1

    • 3.4 Rebuilding Social Sciences on Islamic Foundations: Part 2

    • 3.5 The Great Transformation in European Thought

    • 3.6 The Methodology of Polanyi's Great Transformation

    • 3.7 Uloom-ul-Umran: An Islamic Alternative to Western Social Science

    • 3.8 Multiplexity: Alternative Approaches to Knowledge
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    4: How Capitalism Shapes Our Minds and Hearts

    • 4.1 Uloom-ul-Umran vs. Eurocentric Social Science

    • 4.2 Alternative Methodologies for Studying Social Change

    • 4.3 Illustrations of the Social Change Process

    • 4.4 Islamic and Western Theories of Knowledge

    • 4.5 Emergence of A Market Economy

    • 4.6 How Market Economies Shape Our Thoughts and Feelings

    • 4.7 The Transition to A Capitalist Economy

    • 4.8 Central Myths of Capitalism

    • 4.9 The Battle for Knowledge: Countering Myths by Truths
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    5: Theories of Knowledge: Islamic & Western

    • 5.1 Western Knowledge Excludes Heart and Soul

    • 5.2: Intellectual Independence via a Multiplex Approach to Knowledge

    • 5.3 Knowledge: East and West, with Application to Statistics

    • 5.4 Seven Steps in the Search for Knowledge

    • 5.5 Emergence of Logical Positivism

    • 5.6 Marginalization of Morality in University Education

    • 5.7 Ibn-e-Khaldun on Knowledge

    • 5.8 Knowledge Triumphant

    • 5.9 History of European Philosophy
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    6. Drivers of Social Change

    • Full Video Lesson
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    7: Exploiting Global South: Why? and How?

    • 7.1 Power and Knowledge: Two Obstacles to Progress

    • 7.2 Some Bizarre Methodological Assumptions of Economics