THE STRUCTURE OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS: A COMPARATIVE 
PERSPECTIVE ON MARKETS, ETHICS AND ECONOMICS

Dr Masudul Alam Choudhury


THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL 
COMPLEMENTARITY ACROSS DIVERSITY


In the end we note that the knowledge-induced structure of Islamic market economy is premised on complementarity within diversity. These are signs of integration (complementarity), which is a cardinal sign of unity of knowledge arising from interactions (diversity). They are then evolved to reproduce knowledge that empowers the further understanding of unity, and thereby, of organizing the emerging world-systems. The study of Islamic markets and economy cannot therefore, be an isolated study of pure and simply economic matters alone. Rather as the meaning of specialization in this system was explained, economic structure as any other disciplinary structure in the light of Qur�an, Sunnah and Ijtihad (deriving knowledge from the primal epistemological sources), is inter- and intra-systemically unified through the shuratic process. This is the process that reveals knowledge and organizes it in world-systems through the methodology of understanding, observing and realizing interactions within integrating orders leading to continuously creative evolution of the same.

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