L04 Definitions

NEW article discusses all definitions of Islamic Economics, and the way forward:

Rebuilding Islamic Economics on New Foundations, Asad Zaman, Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics, vol 9 no. 1, Feb 2022

Lecture 4 was in three parts

The first part was about an Islamic WorldView -- this part has been posted on the Islamic WorldView Blog. It has shortlink https://bit.do/iwcie The second part was about the Islamic Distinction between Useful Knowledge and Useless Knowledge, and how we can classify different types of knowledge into these categories. The third part of the lecture was a discussion about different types of definitions of knowledge -- this discussion was based on a paper by Hafas Furqani which is linked below. This paper lists more than 20 definitions. In the lecture we analyzed these definitions