2DO 2024

Plan to take courses: Adi Setia Binswanger: GRADE: The Way of Return - Registration ends May 26th Starts June 1

Top Priority: Super Imperialism  and application of MMT to Afghan Economy.

For IE2024, we need to start lecture 1 with definition of Knowledge as pursuit of knowledge of God. This should borrow from Al-Ghazali

Revise AJIS paper into 3GIE new paper. 



Darul Qasim: Fiqh starts in Spring 2025? 

Translations into Bengali: 

Abdullahal Madani <abdullahalmadani.bup@gmail.com>: They have already done the book of collected essays The Conflict Between Islam and Modernity. Planning to create a new book by compiling blog posts.


Burhan Uddin <uddinb52@gmail.com>: They have translated Islamic Economics: The Polar Opposite of Capitalist Econ


Abu Bokor Siddeeq <absiddeeq313@gmail.com>  Asked about translating book into Bengali.


May 18th 2024

Discuss publication of book with Dr Muhammad Ziaul Haq DG IRI, and get the English Print Version done.  

Enlightenment Epistemology and the Climate Crisis (Final Revised Version for Publication in RWER: 1Drv/published/Econ)

Joseph Lumbard: Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty 

Imam Al-Ghazali: The Book of Knowledge

MEANING: Mixed Document - started out with quest for meaning - drifted into general critique of Enlightenment Epistemology. Currently serves as source material with lots of quotes, to be used in the real papers later. PLAN to rewrite as general critique of Enlightement Epistemology {Errors of Enlightenment Epistemology}. RETRENCH original paper - put as L11 Meaning - First Lecture of Course , and go back to Loss of Meaning in Meaningless lives (DROP HISTORY OF (IDEAS, and make it central in next)  In: courses/IslamicEcon/IE2024  

Current: Meaningless Lives - due to become four blog posts after chat with Write For Me.  Public Link for this Chat

Comparison of Descartes and Ghazali - see: 2Read/Philosophy/Ghazali/Alwahaib 

High Priority: The Agenda for Third Generation Islamic Economics. DECISION: Revise AJIS Article, and make it conform to this title! Killing two birds with one stone. 

Three Urdu Projects: 

IE:PoCE Urdu Translation (WhatsApp Group): Hammad Rasheed recently sent me Chapter 3 via email. Publications/Books/IESL/Languages.

Salim Mansoor Khalid asked for an article from me for Tarjuman al Quran. As first step, I have asked Ahmed Abdui Rehman AIOU to give me name of a translator. He gave me Ussama Ahmed's name. I gave Ussama, W Urdu Translator the link to my original Urdu Zoom talk at IPS. I have asked him to write it up. UPDATE  Sent current draft of article for transcribing to USSAMA


In this connection, I also asked Najeeba Arif Urdu Prof IIUI (now moved to Adabiyat Academy opp Shifa Hospital) to provide me with and Urdu translator. I have also asked Mufti Yasir Ahmed Zeerak for the same. Whoever comes through first, I will task them with the writeup of the following (my urdu video) Central Problem: Battleground of Knowledge 

Update: 5/26/24: Both Zoom Talk and Central Problem have been transcribed by Ussama -- These need to be merged into a paper for Tarjuman AlQuran by Salim Mansoor Khalid. 

Currently preparing slides for talk at IBL Convocation for Waheed.  This talk is now DONE, Waiting for Video Recording from Waheed Sharif.