Absolute Reality in the Qur'an

Masudul Alam Choudhury is Professor and International Chair of the Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman; and Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• Foreword; Gregory MacLeod.- Prelude.- Part I: The Absolute Reality in the Qur’an -- The Methodological Worldview.- 1. Introduction: Foundations of the Qur’anic Worldview.- 2. Analytical Precept of Absolute Reality in the Qur’an.- 3. A Methodological Overview.- 4. Formalism of the Methodological Understanding of the Sure Reality in Terms of Unity of Knowledge.- 5. Tawhid, Al-Wasatiyyah, and Maqasid As-Shari’ah.- 6. Technically Integrating Al-Wasatiyyah and Maqasid As-Shari’ah with Tawhidi Methodological Worldview.- Part II: The Absolute Reality in the Qur’an -- Applications to Economics, Finance and Society using the Generalized Socioscientific System.- 7. The Nature of Business Social Ethics in Heterodox Epistemological Worldviews.- 8. An Ethical Worldview of Moral-Social Reconstruction.- 9. Ethics in Evolutionary Learning Models: A Critique of Comparative Perspectivesand the Alternative Applied To The Wellbeing Of Canadian Natives, Absolute Reality in Social Issues.- 10. Conclusion: The Ultimate Nature of Qur’anic Socioscientific Abstraction.

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