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
Useful Versus Useless Knowledge - IWV Blog Post - A portion of Lecture 8 discusses this issue.
Hafas Furqani: Defining Islamic Economics - Article in Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics, which was discussed in the lecture
Defining Islamic Economics - Post on Islamic WorldView Blog discusses difficulties in defining the subject and how to overcome them