Greatest Challenge Facing the Ummah: 3rd Lecture at Masjid Al-Muzammil in G10 Islamabad 

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/islamic-approaches-to-economic-problems/ This episode provides a brief description and excerpts from my paper entitled “Islam Versus Economics”, as Chapter 2 of Handbook on Islam and Economic Life, Edited by M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis, Edward Elgar Press, 2014.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/the-puzzle-of-western-social-science/

INTRODUCTION: Briefly, we can state the puzzle as: “Why does Western Social Science Claim to be UNIVERSAL, when it is based on analysis of European historical experience?”. Many authors have recognized this problem, which manifests itself in many different ways. Most explicit recognition is expressed in the following quotes:

Timothy Mitchell: “The possibility of social science is based upon taking certain historical experiences of the West as the template for a universal knowledge.”

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