Tariqullah Khan
Dear All
I agree with the observations of Professor Asad Zaman and Professor Munawar Iqbal. Here is my personal confession - these are the first three books that I read sometime very early in my college life: Syed Maududi, "the economic problems of man and its Islamic solution", M N Siddiqi, "the Islamic economic enterprise" and Baqir al Sadr "Iqtisaduna" (I don't remember if these titles are exact). Later on I have read research works on Islamic economics including those of Prof. Nawab Naqvi, and with great interest I read this paper of Dr. Hamdani - http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/psde%2018agm/towards%20divine%20economics.pdf
In my view it is a good paper on Islamic economics. I am also moved by Dr. Hamdani's most intense personal dilemma - to search for own's daughter under the earth quake debris or to spend the extremely precious time in saving the lives of the girls who were screaming for rescue. His decision was to address what is immediately obvious and his daughter actually did not survive. Decision under intense uncertainty - for a person who believes in Allah strongly would be different as compared to the one whose faith is not that strong.
Having said that I don't understand why do we need to continue divisive approaches! As I said Dr. Hamdani's own paper and others like that are well integrated into Islamic Economics!
Sincerely,
Tariqullah Khan @ http://goo.gl/dkILH