البنية المعرفية للإقتصاد الإسلامي : دراسة مقارنة مع الإقتصاد الوضعي

الملخص EN

This paper begins by clarifying elements of prevailing economic system characterized by positivist philosophy, with a focus on methodology and concepts.

It exposes the inability of this system to achieve justice and efficiency.

The paper then addresses a number of basic concepts to explain the nature of the environment in which the concept has been formed choosing the concept of "work" for that purpose.

It concludes with citing the danger of cultural borrowing of concepts, and its role in creating cultural dependency and harboring efforts of building civilizational identity of the Muslim Ummah.

The paper stresses that building an Islamic economic theory is possible, given that a the frame of reference for the theory and the system of concepts that forms it and its tools of analysis are all available, and calls on those concerned with Islamic economics to exert the necessary effort, in theory and practice, to build such theory.