Acknowledgment

Abstract

I am thankful to many colleagues and institutions for their assistance in bringing up this important work to its fruition for publication. As a most comprehensive work on the epistemological foundations of a theory of Islamic economics and finance, this work required a lot of initiative to get it up to the publication level. It was very difficult to bring the entire subject matter and contents of this book to a fair degree of understanding among colleagues. The impediment in this direction was the prevalent subservience of Islamic scholarship to mainstream economic theory that has its own epistemological leaning, which has already received serious criticism from the highest levels of thought. But these critical examinations along with the Islamic epistemological scholarship have not seeped into intellection. Islamic economics and finance as a subject area leaned and slumbered in the bosom of a disappearing linage of neoliberal paradigm. It never had the chance to mature and become an original contributor in the absence of intellectual consciousness that must establish the domain of high thought. The present book is a criticism of that uncritical and epistemologically barren intellection in Islamic economics and finance. While this book takes a bold and original approach to the epistemological foundations of Islamic economics and finance, conceptually, analytically, and empirically, it seriously rejects the prevalent scholarship on intellectual grounds.

Citation

Alam Choudhury, M. (2011), "Acknowledgment", Baltagi, B.H., Sadka, E. and Alam Choudhury, M. (Ed.) Contributions to Economic Analysis (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 291), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xiii-xiv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0573-8555(2011)0000291005