Toward Islamic Political Economy at the Turn of the Century

Abstract

Background and Some Explanatory Terms
With the distancing of Muslim societies from the pristine tawhidi
(unity of God) origins of the Qur’an ingrained in the Madinah Charter
(metareligious constitution of the earliest organized Islamic state)’ as the
experience of the Prophet Muhammad during his flight to the realm of
knowledge across the sidrat al rnuntaha (the tree/region of perfect knowledge,
i.e., bliss), their constitutional strengths of life and thought decayed
exponentially. This marked both the intolerance and the increasing severance
of the Muslim community from the roots of Qur’anic epistemology.
Neither rationalism, scholasticism, nor controlled clerical dominance
(fatwas) can be the methodology to replace the otherwise unifying epistemology
of tawhidi precept in all walks of life.
Unification epistemology (also termed alternatively as tawhidi epistemology
and unity precept equivalent to Qur’anic epistemology) is the
worldview that establishes life, thought, and their cognitive constituents in
the fold of a universally interactiveintegrative pervasion of inter- and
intrasystemic relationships. In this fold, God-Man-Universe interrelationships
are framed according to precise principles. These principles then
ground the emergence of laws that remain integral with the unifying epistemology.
The emergence and convergence of all processes in this framework
are then seen to uphold cause-effect relationships with a uniquely
irreducible and logical presence of unity.
The worldview of unification epistemology is premised in this
methodical deconstruction of all processes to the irreducible core that
foundationally unifies all relationships and that is, in turn, reflected in the
self-referential conclusions of all unified systems. What else can that irreducible,
unified epistemological premise be but tawhid! While the ...