Scientific Theorizing in Islamic Economy

A statement is called scientific whose oral structure and content bear experimentation. When a collection of such statements systematically take form on the basis of a defined concept, a field of science is born. The science of Islamic economics is one of such scientific fields which like other branches of humanism, materializes first when systematic statements with appropriate structure for scientific empirical methods are produced; Second, when the concepts of these statements have direct logical relation to Islamic principles. Third they should be universal to encompass budding variables in the complex relationship within contemporary economics.
This book is an introductory attempt at studying and determining the formation of Islamic economics. The book is in two parts and ten chapters. In the beginning chapter of the first part titled “An Introduction to the Possibility of Theorizing the Scientific Field of Islamic Economics” the influence of qualitative and quantitative factors on social-economic episodes are studied. In the first five chapters of this part, the common features of scientific theories in social-economic sciences; the differences between social-economic sciences with natural sciences; the status of
credits in social-economic life; the goal of Islamic economics; the science of Islamic economics; theories of Islamic economics; and study and critique of the theories of some of the scholars of Islamic economy are addressed. The second part of the book titled “The Methodology of Theorizing Islamic Economics” deals with the same issue. In this part, there is a brief study of 60 the influence of positivism on the methodological subject of the science of economics and its critique; and the method of theorizing the school of Islamic sciences; and the scientific method of theorizing Islamic sciences are also studied.