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Understanding Islamic World view with Dr Asad Zaman:

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About the work of Dr Asad Zaman:

The vast majority of our “knowledge” of the world we live in is highly Eurocentric. Nearly all of my writing aims at developing worldview which is based on the teachings of Islam. This involves looking  at history, and also the meaning of knowledge, very differently from what we were taught in the course of our western education. A very simple explanation of some basic misconceptions generated by Eurocentric teachings is given in my paper: Directions for Muslim Scholars in Social Sciences.  A more completed and detailed explanation of how appropriate methodology of social science is entirely different from that of physical science is given in An Islamic Approach to Humanities. — the main idea is that the prestige of Physical Science has led to the adoption of scientific methodology for social science, which has substantially distorted development of social science. Human beings are free to act and choose in ways that particles are not, and therefore humanities requires a different methodology from physics. It is my contention that conventional economic theory, as currently taught in universities throughout the world, is fundamantally flawed.

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