أولوية البحث المشترك اقتصادا و فقهيا

Abstract EN

In his critical appraisal of the quality of research in Islamic economics, Al-Suhaibani focused on the co-authorship approach with a view to the inability of Arabic research, in general, and Islamic economics, in particular, to reap the fruits of co-authorship which recognizably plays an effective role world-wide in promoting high quality R&D.

In order to correct this shortcoming, Al-Suhaibani’s paper probed carefully into factors that seemed to disincentivise co-authorship in Arabic research, thereby proposing commendable solutions and concluding with insightful recommendations to help raise the quality of R&D.

Yet, the special issue of incentivising co-authorship in Islamic economics still seems to warrant further consideration.

For although the paper rightly confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of Islamic economics in relation to jurisprudence of socioeconomic transactions (i.e., fiqh), and valued the role of economic-jurist co-authored research, it stopped short of explaining why such co-authored works are so scarce in the current literature.

We believe the underlying reason relates to an undue divergence between the current interests in Islamic economics and those within fiqh circles.

Thus, the present discussion sets out to analyze historical and methodological factors that underly the given divergence.

Shedding light on some outstanding commonalities between the received fiqh and the mainstream economics, the discussion re-confirms the vital role of economic-jurist co-authorship in raising the quality of research in Islamic economics in line with Al Suhaibani’s paper.