Topics for Research

There are many different themes which need to researched to establish the newly emerging field of Islamic Economics These are listed below, and some further sketches of ideas to research are provided on separate pages.

• 1. Islamic Politics: Conceived of very differently from Western Political Theory

  2. Microfinance: Islamic versus interest based models (a la Grameen)

  3. Methodology for Islamic Economics: Vast Differences between Western and Islamic understanding of what knoweldge is and how it is acquired.

  4. Developing an Islamic Index for Human Welfare and Socio Economic Development. IRTI conference